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The Rideau Canal, also for pleasure boats, connects Lake Ontario at Kingston to the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario. Canal Lock 1 at the Welland Canal in Lake Ontario. The canal forms a part of the Great Lakes Waterway, which connects Lake Ontario with the St. Lawrence River and other Great Lakes.
NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory: Mason, Krause, and Ulanowicz, 2002 - Modifications for Lake Ontario, 2009. Permission (Reusing this file)
Consequently, a wind blowing from the north has a wind direction referred to as 0° (360°); a wind blowing from the east has a wind direction referred to as 90°, etc. Weather forecasts typically give the direction of the wind along with its speed, for example a "northerly wind at 15 km/h" is a wind blowing from the north at a speed of 15 km/h ...
Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands. The island is part of Loyalist Township in Lennox and Addington County . Amherst Island is located about 3 kilometres (2 mi) offshore from the rest of Loyalist Township and is serviced by public ferry from Millhaven .
The Ontario Peninsula is the southernmost part of the province of Ontario and of Canada as a whole. It is bounded by Lake Huron to the west, Lake Ontario to the east, and Lake Erie to the south. At its tip, the peninsula is separated from Michigan by the Detroit River , the St. Clair River , and Lake St. Clair .
Ontario is known for the large number of lakes and rivers it contains. About one-fifth of the world's fresh water can be found in Ontario. [17] Ontario is also known for being the only province in Canada that touches the Great Lakes. Ontario touches four of the Great Lakes: Huron, Lake Ontario (the province is named after the lake), Erie and ...
Ontario relief map Lake Superior at Neys Provincial Park Ontario Lake Huron Frozen Lake Erie Looking east across Lake Ontario to Toronto Scarborough bluffs Lake Ontario Lake Nipigon Rainy Lake from Tango Channel. This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an area larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi). [2] [3] [4]
The Humber River is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of Lake Ontario and is one of two major rivers on either side of the city of Toronto, the other being the Don River to the east. It was designated a Canadian Heritage River on September 24, 1999. [3]