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    Nettilling Lake

    Nettilling Lake, 5,542 km2, elevation 30 m, max length 123 km, is located toward the south end of Baffin Island. The lake is in the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak, about 110 km southwest of Auyuittuq National Parkand 280 km northwest of Iqaluit. The name is of Inuktitut origin but its meaning is unclear. (See also Largest Lakes in Canada.)

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    New Caledonia

     New Caledonia ("New Scotland"), was a name given in 1806 to the central and highland plateau area of BRITISH COLUMBIA by Simon FRASER, a partner, trader and explorer in the NORTH WEST CO.

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    Niagara Falls (Waterfalls)

    Niagara Falls, a spectacular waterfall in the Niagara River, is the world’s greatest waterfall by volume at 2,832 m3. It is split in two by Goat Island. The American Falls are 59 m high (21–34 m to rock debris at the base of the falls) and 260 m wide and carry about 10 per cent of the flow. The Canadian, or Horseshoe, Falls are 54 m high and 670 m wide, with the remaining 90 per cent of the flow. However, only the Canadian Falls fall freely to the Maid-of-the-Mist pool, where they have excavated a basin as deep or deeper than they are tall. The falls were formed some 14,000 years ago as retreating glaciers exposed the Niagara Escarpment, permitting the waters of Lake Erie, which formerly drained south, to flow northward into Lake Ontario.

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    Niagara Peninsula

    The Niagara Peninsula lies between Lake Ontario, Lake Erie and the Niagara River in southwestern Ontario. As the river is on the international boundary between Canada and the United States, the peninsula has played a frontier role since 1783.

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    Niagara River

    The Niagara River, 58 km long, issues from Lake Erie and flows north over Niagara Falls to Lake Ontario. The river’s drainage area is about 684,000 km2, and its average flow at Queenston is 5,885 m3/s. The Niagara River forms part of the border between Canada and the United States.

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    Nootka Sound

    Nootka Sound, British Columbia, is an inlet on Vancouver Island's western coast, 270 km northwest of Victoria. This area is known for its natural beauty.

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    North

    In strictly geographic terms, the North refers to the immense hinterland of Canada that lies beyond the narrow strip of the country in which most Canadians live and work, but generally refers to the Northwest Territories, the Yukon and Nunavut.

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    North Cape

    North Cape, also called North Port, is the northern extremity of Prince Edward Island, dividing Northumberland Strait from the Gulf of St Lawrence proper.

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    North Saskatchewan River

    The North Saskatchewan River (1,287 km long, the first 48.5 km of which is designated as a Canadian Heritage River) is a major tributary to the Saskatchewan River, which ultimately flows into Hudson Bay. The mean annual flow is 241 m3/s; however, flow varies between the peak in July and minimum in February. It served as a major transportation route from the end of the last Ice Age through the mid-20th century.

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    Northumberland Strait

    A generally shallow depth causes strong tidal currents, water turbulence and a high concentration of suspended red silt and clay, which led early French colonists to name the strait "la mer rouge.

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    Northwest Passage

    The Northwest Passage is a sea corridor through Canada's Arctic archipelago and along the northern coast of North America. European explorers searched in vain for the passage for 300 years, intent on finding a commercially viable western sea route between Europe and Asia. Climate change may now be opening the once ice-bound passage to more regular shipping. 

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    Notre Dame Bay

    Notre Dame Bay, 6,000 km2, is a large inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. It contains many islands, and its shores are indented by numerous coves and smaller embayments.

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    Nueltin Lake

    Nueltin Lake, 2279 km2, elev 278 m, max length 144 km, is located on the border of Nunavut and northeastern Manitoba, about 660 km south of the Arctic Circle. An irregularly shaped lake, it has a heavily indented shoreline and contains numerous small islands.

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    Nunatak

    Nunatak (​Inuktitut, "lonely peak"), is a ​mountain rising above large ice sheets. 

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    Oak Island

    Oak Island, one of over 300 islands in Mahone Bay on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast, is about 1.6 km long and 0.8 km wide. Legend reputes it as the site of buried treasure, attributed to various pirates, including William Kidd, Henry Morgan, and Blackbeard, as well as to Inca refugees fleeing Spanish conquistadors in South America. 

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