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A beach along Lake Nipissing. Lake Nipissing drains into Georgian Bay, which is a part of Lake Huron, via the French River. Lake Nipissing lies about 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Algonquin Provincial Park. The French fur trader Étienne Brûlé was the first European to visit the lake in 1610.
Nipissing Great Lakes was a prehistoric proglacial lake. Parts of the former lake are now Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Georgian Bay and Lake Michigan. It formed about 7,500 years before present (YBP). The lake occupied the depression left by the Labradorian Glacier. [1] This body of water drained eastward from Georgian Bay to the Ottawa valley.
Owaissa Lake is a lake in geographic Preston Township, Nipissing District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] [3] It is in Algonquin Provincial Park and is part of the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin. Owaissa Lake has two unnamed inflows, at the north and southwest. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek at the south, which flows to ...
Snowshoe Lake (Bark Lake, Ontario) Snowshoe Lake (West Harry Lake, Ontario) Source Lake (Nipissing District) Sturgeon Lake (Nipissing District) Sucker Lake (Nipissing District) Surveyor Lake (Nipissing District)
The Manitou Islands Provincial Nature Reserve protects 4 of the 5 islands (as a private island, Calder Island is excluded), and also has a 1-kilometer-wide zone around the islands that protects the submarine lakebeds. It was established in 1989 and is representative of island ecology in Lake Nipissing with warmer than normal regional temperatures.
A beach on Lake Nipissing in West Ferris, a neighbourhood of North Bay. North Bay is located approximately 330 km (210 mi) north of Toronto, and differs in geography from Southern Ontario in that North Bay is situated on the Canadian Shield.
Callander Bay is an eroded Proterozoic volcanic pipe [7] formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of a deep-origin volcano.These volcanoes originate at least three times as deep as most other volcanoes, and the resulting magma that is pushed toward the surface is high in magnesium and volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide.
Sturgeon Lake is a lake located 2.0 km (1.2 mi) south of Tomiko and 8.0 km (5.0 mi) north-east of Highway 11 / Trans-Canada Highway in the Nipissing District of northeastern Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is in geographic Stewart Township [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is part of the Great Lakes Basin .