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Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, established in 1944 as Sibley Provincial Park and renamed in 1988, is a 244-square-kilometre (94 sq mi) park located on the Sibley Peninsula in Northwestern Ontario, east of Thunder Bay. The nearest communities are Pass Lake, in the township of Sibley, located at the northern entrance to the park, and Dorion ...
The Sleeping Giant is a series of mesas formed by the erosion of thick, diabase sills on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Sawyer's Bay the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its ...
Aerial view of the Sleeping Giant, the southernmost part of Sibley Peninsula. The Sibley Peninsula is a 52-kilometre (32 mi) long and 10-kilometre (6 mi) wide peninsula in Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior. It projects into the lake from Superior's north shore, and separates Thunder Bay to the west from Black Bay to the east. [1]
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Sleeping Giant Provincial Park has an excellent exhibit in its visitor centre, detailing the structure and history of the mine. There is speculation that much silver remains to be recovered at this location, but attempts to reopen the mine in 1919 and the 1970s (reprocessing mine tailings) were not successful.
The conservation area extends 140 kilometres (87 mi) eastward from Thunder Bay, [3] from Thunder Cape in the west, at the tip of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, to Bottle Point in the east, and stretches southward to the Canada-US border, linking with Isle Royale National Park. [7] The Nipigon River and Lake Nipigon lie to the north. [4]
Provincial parks: Areas containing significant natural and cultural features, and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation, scientific research and environmental monitoring, and education. Provincial parks are further subdivided into six classes:
Scum Lake is a lake on the Sibley Peninsula in geographic Sibley Township [1] in the Unorganized Part of Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin and is located entirely in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.