Athabasca

Athabasca (also Athabaska) is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w (pronounced [aːθapaːskaːw]), meaning "grass or reeds here and there". Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada.

Athabasca may also refer to:

Geographical features

• Mount Athabasca (3,491 metres or 11,453 feet), a mountain in Jasper National Park, Canada
  • Athabasca Glacier, a glacier in Jasper National Park, Canada
• Athabasca River, river in Alberta, Canada
  • Athabasca Falls, waterfalls on the Athabasca River
  • Peace-Athabasca Delta – of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
• Athabasca Oil Sands – oil-producing region in Alberta, Canada
• Lake Athabasca, large lake in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
• Athabasca Pass, a mountain pass in Jasper National Park
• Athabasca Valles, a feature on the surface of the planet Mars
• Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park, a unique geophysical land feature in the boreal shield ecosystem Saskatchewan, Canada
• Athabasca Basin, a region in Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, the source of the world's highest grade uranium deposits

Administrative features

• Athabasca, Alberta, town in Canada, formerly (1880–1914) named Athabasca Landing
• Athabasca County, a municipal district in Alberta, Canada
• District of Athabasca, a former district of the North-West Territory
• Athabaska (electoral district), a former federal electoral district (1925–1968) in Alberta
• Athabasca (electoral district), a federal electoral district (since 1968) in Alberta
• Athabasca (Alberta provincial electoral district), 1905–1986
• Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
• Athabasca University, a distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada

Other

• Athabaskan languages, a language family indigenous to North America
• Athabaska Herald, one of the officers of arms at the Canadian Heraldic Authority
• Athabasca (novel), novel by Alistair MacLean
• Athabasca, a character in Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• SS Athabasca, a steamship launched in Scotland in 1883 and put into service on the Great Lakes, along with SS Alberta and SS Algoma
• Any of three ships named HMCS Athabaskan
• Athabasca (1888 HBC vessel), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
• Athabasca River (1912 HBC vessel), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
• Athabasca River (1922 HBC vessel), see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
• MS Fort Athabasca, a Canadian-owned, British-registered merchant ship bombed 2 December 1943 during World War II
• Athabascaite, a mineral
• Athabaska Airways, earlier name of Transwest Air
• Athabasca Valles, a channel on the planet Mars

See also

• Arthabaska (disambiguation), the name of several geographic features in Quebec, shares the same root