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Lake Winnipegosis is a large (5,370 km 2) lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, ... It appears as Winipgassish on the Fidler map of 1820, while modern ...
Lake Winnipeg is Canada's sixth-largest freshwater lake [3] and the third-largest freshwater lake contained entirely within Canada, but it is relatively shallow (mean depth of 12 m [39 ft]) [4] excluding a narrow 36 m (118 ft) deep channel between the northern and southern basins. It is the eleventh-largest freshwater lake on Earth.
Lake Winnipeg Alberts Lake Lake Athapapuskow A Pre-Cambrian Shield cliff on Thompson Lake Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park on Lake Winnipeg Lake Winnipegosis from Winnipegosis Beach List of lakes [ edit ]
It eventually drained into what is now Hudson Bay, leaving behind Lake Winnipeg, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake Manitoba, and Lake of the Woods. First postulated in 1823 by William H. Keating , [ 3 ] it was named by Warren Upham in 1879 after Louis Agassiz , the then recently deceased (1873) founder of glaciology , when Upham recognized that the lake ...
Cedar Lake is a lake just north of Lake Winnipegosis in Manitoba, Canada. Cedar Lake's water level is controlled by the Grand Rapids Dam. The town of Grand Rapids and the First Nations town of Easterville are nearby. The lake is known to have excellent examples of prehistoric amber fossil of cretaceous age. [1]
Winnipegosis is an unincorporated urban community in the Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Manitoba, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Mossey River on Lake Winnipegosis in west-central Manitoba. The community was once categorized as a village, but this status was relinquished on 1 January 2015 upon its amalgamation with the RM of Mossey ...
It includes most of Lake Winnipeg, most of Lake Winnipegosis, and some of the north basin of Lake Manitoba.The Northern Region of Manitoba begins at the 53rd Parallel is known as Norman region denoting the start of Northern Manitoba.
Dauphin Lake is located in western Manitoba near the city of Dauphin. The lake covers an area of 201 square miles (520 km 2) and has a drainage basin of about 3,420 square miles (8,900 km 2). [1] The Mossy River drains the lake into Lake Winnipegosis. The basin is drained by seven major streams and has a total relief of 1,900 feet (580 m).