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Lake Nipigon
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large lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Key facts
- Location
- Ontario
- Lake type
- Glacial
- Primary inflows
- Gull , Wabinosh, Whitesand , Little Jackfish, Ombabika, Onaman, Namewaminikan rivers
- Primary outflows
- Nipigon River
- Catchment area
- 24,560 km (9,484 mi )
- Basin countries
- Canada
- Surface area
- 4,848 km (1,872 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 54.9 m (180 ft)
- Max depth
- 165 m (541 ft)
- Water volume
- 266 km (64 cu mi; 216 × 10 ^ acre⋅ft)
- Shore length
- 1,044 km (649 mi)
- Surface elevation
- 260 m (850 ft)
- Islands
- Caribou, Geikie, Katatota, Kelvin , Logan, Murchison, Murray, and Shakespeare islands
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rift lake
- Country
- Canada
- Area
- 4848
- Elevation
- 258
- Image
- Lake Nipigon 431 751enh pan 2048 (27010849382).jpg
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- inflows
- Gull River
- Commons category
- Lake Nipigon
- outflows
- Nipigon River
- vertical depth
- 54.9
- volume as quantity
- 320
- watershed area
- 25400
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Nipigon (/ˈnɪpɪɡɒn/ NIP-ih-gon; French: lac Nipigon; Ojibwe: Animbiigoo-zaaga'igan) is a freshwater lake in Northwestern Ontario. Part of the Great Lakes drainage basin, it drains through the Nipigon River into Lake Superior. It is the largest lake entirely within the Canadian province of Ontario.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Nipigon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.