Cross Lake (french: lac Cross) is a
lake in
South Algonquin,
Nipissing District,
Ontario,
Canada,
about south of the community of
Madawaska.
Ontario Highway 523
Secondary Highway 523, commonly referred to as Highway 523, is a Ontario Provincial Highway Network, provincially maintained highway in the Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. The highway is a north–south route in Nipissing District which fol ...
runs just east of the lake, and the settlement of
Cross Lake lies between the highway and the lake.
Hydrology
Cross Lake is in the
Saint Lawrence River drainage basin, is about long and wide and lies at an elevation of . The name refers to its roughly cross-like shape, with one line running from the northwest to southeast, and the other from west-southwest to east-northeast.
There are four unnamed creek inflows, one at the west, one at the south, one at the north from Lyell Long Lake and one at the southeast from Hawk Lake. The primary outflow, at the southwest, is
Moore Creek towards
McKenzie Lake
McKenzie Lake is a suburban neighbourhood in southeast Calgary, Alberta. The community was in development from the mid-1980s through to present. The area is bordered by Deerfoot Trail on the east, Stoney Trail on the south, Fish Creek Provincial ...
, which flows into the
Madawaska River, and via the
Ottawa River
The Ottawa River (french: Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: ''Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi'') is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word 'to trade', as it was the major trade route of Eastern ...
into the St. Lawrence River.
See also
*
List of lakes in Ontario
References
*
Lakes of Nipissing District
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