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Lake Nipigon Provincial Park - located on the east side of Lake Nipigon. In 1999, the park boundary was amended to reduce the park area from 14.58 to 9.18 km 2 (5.63 to 3.54 sq mi). The area removed from the park was deregulated and transferred to the Government of Canada for a reserve for the Sand Point First Nation .
Lake Nipigon Provincial Park is a provincial park located on the east side of Lake Nipigon in Ontario, Canada.The park covers an area of 1,357 hectares (3,350 acres). In 1999, the park boundary was amended to transfer some land to the Government of Canada for a reserve for the Sand Point First Nation.
Nipigon (/ ˈ n ɪ p ɪ ɡ ən /) is a township in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located along the west side of the Nipigon River and south of the small Helen Lake running between Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior. Lake Nipigon is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Nipigon.
Lake Nipigon, connected to Lake Superior by the Nipigon River, is surrounded by sill-like formations of mafic and ultramafic igneous rock hundreds of meters high. The lake lies in the Nipigon Embayment, a failed arm of the triple junction (centered beneath Lake Superior) in the Midcontinent Rift System event, estimated at 1.1 billion years ago.
The Nipigon River is located in Thunder Bay District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. [4] The river is about 48 km (30 mi) long [1] (or 209 kilometres (130 mi) when measured to the head of Ombabika River [2]) and 50 to 200 m (160 to 660 ft) wide [citation needed], and flows from Lake Nipigon to Nipigon Bay on Lake Superior at the community of Red Rock, dropping from an elevation of 260 to 183 ...
Kelvin Island (French: île Kelvin) is a large island in the centre of Lake Nipigon, in Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. [1] It is named after the British scientist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907).
The Gull River is a documented canoe route, linking interior lakes such as Garden and Mooseland Lakes to Lake Nipigon. From Garden Lake Road (Highway 811) to Highway 527, the route is about 100 kilometres (62 mi) long, taking between 5 and 8 days. There are 15 documented portages and few campsites, which are not signed and see little to no ...
Secondary Highway 643, commonly referred to as Highway 643, is a secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Thunder Bay District. Its total length is approximately 19.6 kilometres (12.2 mi) and runs roughly on a northwest–southeast orientation.