Spirit Lake
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Canada
  • Spirit Lake (Yukon)
    Spirit Lake (Yukon)
    Spirit Lake is a lake in the southern Yukon about 70 km south of Whitehorse. The lake is situated just off the Klondike Highway. The lake has emerald green colors. The distinct crater-like holes on the lake bottom were shaped by glaciers which retreated thousands of years ago....

     in the Yukon Territory


United States
  • Spirit Lake (Iowa)
    Spirit Lake (Iowa)
    Big Spirit Lake is a natural body of water, approximately in area, in Dickinson County in northwest Iowa in the United States. It is part of the chain of lakes known as the Iowa Great Lakes, the northern shore of the lake straddles the border with Minnesota. It is the largest natural lake in Iowa....

    , in northwestern Iowa
  • Spirit Lake (South Dakota), in eastern South Dakota
  • Spirit Lake (Washington)
    Spirit Lake (Washington)
    Spirit Lake is a lake north of Mount St. Helens in Washington State. The lake was a popular tourist destination for many years until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. With the eruption and resulting megatsunami, thousands of trees were torn from the surrounding hillside after lake water was...

    , in southwestern Washington
  • Spirit Lake (Utah), Eastern, North slope Uintah Mountains

Other

  • Spirit Lake Massacre
    Spirit Lake Massacre
    The Spirit Lake Massacre was an attack by a Wahpetuke band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter. Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Inkpaduta led 14 Sioux against the settlements near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in the northwestern territory of...

    , an 1857 attack by Sioux on settlers in Spirit Lake, Iowa
  • Spirit Lake internment camp
    Ukrainian Canadian internment
    The Ukrainian Canadian internment was part of the confinement of "enemy aliens" in Canada during and for two years after the end of the First World War, lasting from 1914 to 1920, under the terms of the War Measures Act that would be used again, in the Second World War, against Japanese Canadians;...

    for Ukrainians in Canada during World War I
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