Kathleen Lake is in Kluane National Park, in the Yukon. Kluane has some of the world's largest glaciers outside the polar region, and its mountains are home to the best collection of wild large mammals in North America. The park of 22000 square kilometres (8500 square miles) was established in 1972 in the southwesr corner of the Territory. As with most of Canada's North, it is ecologically sensitive to intrusions.
 

Within Kluane National Park, the scale is so immense that whole forests are dwarfed. The park contains some of Canada's highest mountains.
 
 
 
 
 

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