u/EmeCri90

Two interesting (and possibly crater) lakes in remote Nunavut.

Two interesting (and possibly crater) lakes in remote Nunavut.

While searching northern Canada for some interesting features, I came across these two interesting looking lakes. They're suspiciously circular, and so I immediately thought they might be ancient impact craters filled with water (Canada is full of these)

However, this isn't so obvious since glacial erosion can produce similarly circular lakes, but given that they're both located in areas where there's no other similar looking lakes, and, that by looking at the topology what looks to be a rim is visible in both cases I'm inclined to think these are impact craters lakes.

The problem is that they're both incredibly remote, so I imagine sending someone with the right equipment there to study the rock might be extremely difficult.

The bigger of the two lakes, is an unnamed lake ~ 8.8km across located at 67°23'38.63"N 102°42'45.66"W

The smaller one is named "Meen Lake" it's ~ 4.3km across and is located at 64°58'35.66"N 87°41'11.44"W

I'm unaware if any of these two has ever been mentioned as candidate impact craters if so do let me know

u/EmeCri90 — 7 days ago