Athabasca
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Athabasca is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w (pronouced Template:IPA-alg), meaning “grass or reeds here and there”.
Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada:
Geographical features:
- Mount Athabasca (3,491 metres (11,453 ft)*), a mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada
- Athabasca Glacier, a glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
- Athabasca River, river in Alberta, Canada
- Athabasca Falls, waterfalls on the Athabasca River
- Peace-Athabasca Delta - Delta of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
- Athabasca Tar Sands - oil producing region in Alberta, Canada
- Lake Athabasca, large lake in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
- Athabasca Pass, a mountain pass in Jasper National Park
- Athabasca Valles, a feature on the surface of the planet Mars
Administrative features:
- Athabasca, Alberta, town in Alberta, Canada
- Athabasca Landing, Alberta, former name (1880 to 1914) of the town of Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
- Athabasca County, Alberta - County in Alberta, Canada
- District of Athabasca, former district of the North-West Territory
- Athabaska (electoral district), (1925-1968) former federal electoral district Alberta
- Athabasca (electoral district), (from 1968) former federal electoral district in the Province of Alberta.
- Athabasca (provincial electoral district), former provincial electoral district in the Province of Alberta.
- Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district), former provincial electoral district in the Province of Saskatchewan.
- Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district), current provincial electoral district in the Province of Saskatchewan.
- Athabasca University, distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Additional meanings include:
- Athabascan a family of Indigenous languages in North America.
- Athabaska Herald - Athabaska Herald of Arms, one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority
- Athabasca (novel) - novel by Alistair MacLean
- Athabasca - character in Terry Brooks's Shannara series
- SS Athabasca, a steamship launched in Scotland in 1883 and put into service on the Great Lakes, along with SS Alberta and SS Algoma
Also associated with the name Athabasca:
- Athabascaville, Quebec
- Any one of three ships named HMCS Athabaskan
- MS Fort Athabasca, a Canadian-owned, British-registered merchant ship bombed 2 December 1943 during World War II
- Athabascaite, a mineral
See also:
- Arthabasca, the name several geographic features in Quebec, shares the same root