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Mackenzie River

A river of northwest Canada rising in Great Slave Lake in southern Northwest Territories and flowing about 1,802 km (1,120 mi) generally northwest to a vast delta on Mackenzie Bay, an arm of the Beaufort Sea. It was first navigated by Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1789.



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