Athabasca

Athabasca (also Athabaska) is an anglicized version of the Cree name for Lake Athabasca in Canada, āthap-āsk-ā-w (pronounced ), meaning “grass or reeds here and there”.

Related to the lake are several other geographical and administrative features called Athabasca. Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada:

Geographical features:

  • Mount Athabasca (3,491 metres / 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 – Delta of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
  • Athabasca Tar 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

Administrative features:

  • Athabasca, Alberta, town in Canada, formerly (1880–1914) named Athabasca Landing
  • Athabasca County, Alberta
  • District of Athabasca, 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 (provincial electoral district), former provincial electoral district in Alberta
  • Athabasca (former Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
  • Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
  • Athabasca University, distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
    • Athabasca University Students' Union

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
  • 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