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The Churchill River (French: Rivière Churchill) [1] [3] is a major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 kilometres (1,000 mi) long. [ 2 ] It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691.
Manitoba: Region: Northern: Physical characteristics; ... The Little Churchill River is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Northern Manitoba, Canada. [1] [2 ...
The Churchill River flows through the lake. The community of South Indian Lake is located on the southeast shore, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) (by air) north of the city of Thompson . It had a population of 767 in 2011 and is the main settlement of the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation , a First Nations band government .
From Stanley Mission, it is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east by water on the Churchill River. The falls, Iskwatikan Lake and the south shore of Nistowiak Lake are within Lac La Ronge Provincial Park. [4] There is a tourist fishing camp on the west side of the Rapid River at Nistowiak Lake called "Jim's Camp".
Churchill is a subarctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 140 km (87 mi) from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" and to the benefit of its burgeoning tourism industry.
Neso Lake is a glacial lake on the Mistik Creek chain in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada.It sits in the Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests which consist of mixed coniferous forest trees. [1]
The remote creek flows through Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and trembling aspen. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of muskeg. [2]
Churchill River may refer to: Churchill River (Hudson Bay), which runs through Saskatchewan and Manitoba and drains into Hudson Bay Little Churchill River, in Manitoba and a tributary of the Churchill River; Churchill River (Atlantic), which drains the Smallwood Reservoir in Labrador into the Atlantic Ocean via Lake Melville