Mackenzie River
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Tweet A river of northwest Canada rising in Great Slave Lake in southern Northwest Territories and flowing about 1,740 km (1,080 mi) generally northwest to a vast delta on Mackenzie Bay, an arm of the Beaufort Sea. The Mackenzie Mountains west of the river along the Yukon border rise to 2,972 m (9,751 ft). |
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