Snowking Winter Festival
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The Snowking Winter Festival is an annual festival held each March in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada since 1996.
The annual snowcastle on Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife, 2013
Courtyard of the ice castle, 2014
Great Slave Lake
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Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada, the deepest lake in North America at 614 m, and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area. It is 469 km long and 20
Snowking Winter Festival
…is held in a snow castle, built from snow with window panes and other features made of ice. Each winter the castle is built on Yellowknife Bay, on Great Slave Lake. The castle is designed and the construction is supervised by Snowking, Anthony Foliot. The design evolves every year and the castle has grown to include…
NASA photo of Great Slave Lake and Lake Athabasca
Yellowknife Bay in April 2012. The surface melt begins to make transportation more difficult between the houseboats near Jolliffe Island.