Kabinakagami Lake is a

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in the Unorganized North Part of

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. Shows the lake highlighted against a map. The lake is on the

Kabinakagami River The Kabinakagami River is a river in Cochrane and Algoma Districts in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Shows the river course. It is part of the James Bay drainage basin and is a right tributary of the Kenogami River. Course The river begins at Su ...

and is part of the

James Bay James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost par ...

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. It is located northwest of the

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, and about southwest of the settlement of Oba and southwest of the town of Hearst.

Hydrology

The primary inflows are the Kabinakagami River at Little Kaby Bay at the southwest, and the

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at the east of the lake. There are a number of secondary inflows. Left tributaries, clockwise from the Kabinakagami River inflow to the Kabinakagami River outflow, are Bear Creek at the southwest near Picard's Point; Stoney Creek at the top of Boot Bay at the west; and Fairy Creek at the west. Right tributaries, clockwise from the Kabinakagami River outflow to the Kabinakagami River inflow, are: Ermine Creek at Little Whitefish Bay at the east; and Noisy Creek and Five Mile Creek at Five Mile Bay at the southeast. Schist Bay is a large bay that forms the northwest corner of the lake. Rocky Point lies between it and the large bay that forms the north end of the lake, where the Kabinakagami River leaves over the Big Rapids. The Kabinakagami River flows via the

Kenogami River The Kenogami River is a river in the James Bay drainage basin in Thunder Bay and Cochrane districts in Northern Ontario, Canada, which flows north from Long Lake near Longlac to empty into the Albany River. Shows the river course. The river is ...

and

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to James Bay.

Portages connecting to other drainage basins

From Five Mile Bay at the southeast corner of the lake, the Five Mile Portage leads south over Five Mile Creek to the north end of Esnagi Lake on the Magpie River, which empties into

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, thus providing a connection between the James Bay /

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and

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drainage basins. A second route from the lake to James Bay is via the Oba River. The Pine Portage leads from Pine Portage Bay to Pine Portage Lake on the Oba River, avoiding several rapids between that point and the river mouth at Kabinakagami Lake. From there, one can travel upstream to the Albany Forks, from which the Mattawitchewan River flows downstream as part of the Missinaibi and

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rivers into the bay.

References

* {{refend Lakes of Algoma District

Hydrology

Portages connecting to other drainage basins

See also

References