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". Most places named Athabasca are found in Alberta, Canada.

Athabasca may also refer to:

Geographical features

 * Mount Athabasca (3491 m), 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 – of the Peace River, Athabasca River, near Lake Athabasca
 * Athabasca Oil 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, a unique geophysical land feature in the boreal shield ecosystem Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Athabasca Basin, a region in Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta, the source of the world's highest grade uranium deposits

Administrative features

 * Athabasca, Alberta, town in Canada, formerly (1880–1914) named Athabasca Landing
 * Athabasca County, a municipal district in Alberta, Canada
 * District of Athabasca, a 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 (Alberta provincial electoral district), 1905–1986
 * Athabasca (Saskatchewan provincial electoral district)
 * Athabasca University, a distance learning university in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada

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
 * Athabasca, see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
 * Athabasca River, see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
 * Athabasca River, see Boats of the Mackenzie River watershed
 * 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
 * Athabasca Valles, a channel on the planet Mars