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Lake Winnipegosis is a large (5,370 km 2) lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, some 300 km northwest of Winnipeg. It is Canada's eleventh-largest lake. The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminutive suffix. Winnipeg means 'big muddy waters' and Winnipegosis means 'little muddy waters'. [1]
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.
West of Lake Winnipeg is the chain of lakes that look like a single lake on large maps (Cedar Lake (Manitoba), Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Manitoba). West of this is the Assiniboine River. The Assiniboine flows southeast and then the east to Winnipeg, Manitoba where it meets the Red River of the North which flows
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 ]
There is also a monster called Winnepogo, named for either Lake Winnipegosis or Lake Winnipeg, [2] thought possibly to be the same creature since the lakes are connected. The community of St. Laurent on the southeast shore of Lake Manitoba holds a yearly Manipogo Festival during the first week of March. [3]
Lake Winnipegosis Salt Flats Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located on the west of Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada. [2] It was established in 1992 under the Manitoba Ecological Reserves Act. [1] [3] It is 47.25 square kilometres (18.24 sq mi) in size. [1]
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 ...
Lake St. George Caves Ecological Reserve.49 ha (1.2 acres) [12] Lake Winnipegosis Salt Flats Ecological Reserve: 4,725 ha (11,680 acres) [13] Lewis Bog Ecological Reserve: 5,370 ha (13,300 acres) [14] Libau Bog Ecological Reserve: 180 ha (440 acres) [15] Little George Island Ecological Reserve: 15 ha (37 acres) [16] Long Point Ecological Reserve