Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's North West Territories, lies on the shore of which lake?
Yellowknife Yellowknife Yellowknife () is the capital and only city, as well as the largest community, in the Northwest Territories (NT or NWT), Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after a local Dene tribe once known as the 'Copper Indians' or 'Yellowknife Indians', referred to locally as the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, who traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. Its population, which is ethnically
Yellowknife designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion; only CFYK-DT converted its main transmitter in Yellowknife to digital. On August 10, 2012, NASA announced that the section of Mars where the Curiosity of the Mars Science Laboratory mission landed would be renamed Yellowknife, in recognition of the city of Yellowknife. Yellowknife is usually where scientists start geological mapping expeditions when researching the oldest known rocks in North America. Yellowknife Yellowknife () is the capital and only city, as well as the largest community, in the Northwest Territories (NT or NWT), Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great