Tagish Lake
Template:Short description Template:About Template:Infobox body of water Template:Stack Tagish Lake is a lake in Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada. The lake is Template:Convert long and averages Template:Convert wide with an area of Template:Convert, about two thirds of which is in British Columbia.<ref name="ProgramUpdate">Template:Cite</ref><ref name="AquaticResources">Template:Cite</ref> The average depth is Template:Convert and maximum depth is Template:Convert.<ref name="ProgramUpdate" />
It has two arms, the Taku Arm in the east which is very long and mostly in British Columbia and Windy Arm in the west, mostly in Yukon. The Klondike Highway runs along Windy Arm south of Carcross. Bennett Lake flows into Tagish Lake, so the northern portion of Tagish Lake was part of the route to the Klondike used by gold-seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
The meteoriteEdit
On January 18, 2000, a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite now known as "Tagish Lake", fell on the frozen surface of the Taku Arm. A number of fragments were recovered and studied by researchers from the University of Calgary, University of Western Ontario, and NASA; the meteorite currently resides in the University of Alberta meteorite collection.
The nameEdit
The lake is named for the Tagish people. Tagish means fish trap in the Tagish language, an Athabascan language.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Other sources translate Tagish as "it (spring ice) is breaking up".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Sister project
FaunaEdit
Tagish lies in the path of migratory swans that come every spring to wait out the melting of the more Northern Lakes.
Tagish is also home to the Southern Lakes with trophy fishing.