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The largest known beaver dam is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, Canada, and is 775 metres (2,543 ft) long. [8] Satellite photos provided by NASA WorldWind show the dam did not exist in 1975, but it appeared in subsequent images. It has two or more lodges and is a combination of two original dams.
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at 44,741 km 2 (17,275 sq mi). [3] It is in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories . Larger in area than Switzerland , [ 4 ] it is the second-largest national park in the world. [ 5 ]
The largest beaver dam is 2,790 ft (850 m) in length—more than half a mile long—and was discovered via satellite imagery in 2007. [62] It is located on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta and is more than twice the width of the Hoover Dam which spans 1,244 ft (379 m). [63] [64] C. c. canadensis, feeding in winter
1 Alberta. 2 British Columbia. 3 Manitoba. ... This is a list of dams and water reservoirs in Canada. Alberta. Bassano Dam ... (the largest concrete arch dam in ...
Alberta: 2000 [1] World's Largest Beaver Beaverlodge: Alberta Beaverlodge beaver: 2004 World's Largest Bee Falher [2] Alberta Falher bee: 1990 [3] World's Largest Honey Bee Tisdale [4] Saskatchewan: 1993 Aaron the Blue Heron [5] Barrhead: Alberta 1984 World's Largest Border Markers Lloydminster: Alberta and Saskatchewan 1994 [6]
The tallest embankment dam and second tallest dam in the world is the 300 m (984 ft) Nurek Dam in Tajikistan. The tallest gravity dam is the 285 m (935 ft) high Grande Dixence Dam in Switzerland. The tallest natural dam, the 567 m (1,860 ft) Usoi Dam in Tajikistan, is 262 m (860 ft) taller than the tallest existing man-made one.
The Peace–Athabasca Delta, located in northeast Alberta, is the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America. [2] It is located partially within the southeast corner of Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada's largest national park, and also spreads into the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, west and south of the historical community of Fort Chipewyan.
Bighorn Dam (or Bighorn Hydro Plant) is an embankment dam in Clearwater County in west-central Alberta, Canada. It was built by Calgary Power in 1972, and led to the creation of Lake Abraham, Alberta's largest reservoir. [2] The dam and associated hydroelectric plant are managed by TransAlta.