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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]
The river begins at the Mossy River Dam at the north end of Dauphin Lake and flows north into the south end of Lake Winnipegosis at the community of Winnipegosis. Prior to 1900, Mossey River was spelt "Mossy". [2] It is also the namesake of the Rural Municipality of Mossey River. [3]
Lake Area (includes islands) Altitude Depth max. Volume Lake Winnipeg [2] [3] 24,387 km 2 (9,416 sq mi) 217 m (712 ft) 36 m (118 ft) 284 km 3 (68 cu mi) Lake Winnipegosis [2] [3] 5,374 km 2 (2,075 sq mi) 254 m (833 ft) 18.3 m (60 ft) 19.8 km 3 (4.8 cu mi) Lake Manitoba [2] [3] 4,624 km 2 (1,785 sq mi) 248 m (814 ft) 7 m (23 ft)
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.
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 ...
Birch Island Provincial Park is a remote provincial park located on Lake Winnipegosis in Manitoba, Canada. [2] The park is bordered on its western boundary by the Swan-Pelican Provincial Forest [3] and on its eastern side by Chitek Lake Anishinaabe Provincial Park. [4] Surface bedrock on Birch Island is Devonian limestone and dolomite. [5]
The First Nation's homeland is the Pine Creek 66A reserve, located approximately 110 kilometres north of Dauphin along the southwestern shore of Lake Winnipegosis between the communities of Camperville and Duck Bay. The Rural Municipality of Mountain (South) borders it on the southwest. The current chief of Pine Creek First Nation is Derek ...
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).