Michikan Lake is a
lake
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in
Kenora District
Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The district seat is the City of Kenora.
It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at , it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger ...
in
northwestern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is in the
Hudson Bay drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
.
The main inflow is an unnamed river at the west. A secondary inflow is an unnamed river at the north. The major outflow, at the southeast, is an unnamed channel to the
Severn River, which flows to Hudson Bay.
The lake is the home of the
Bearskin Lake First Nation main settlements,
[ (Bearskin Lake settlement)] which relocated from
Bearskin Lake to the southwest in the 1930s, and is partly encompassed by their Bearskin Lake Indian Reserve.
[ (Bearskin Lake reserve)]
See also
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Bearskin Lake First Nation
*
List of lakes in Ontario
This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply.
Larger lake statistics
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References
Lakes of Kenora District
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