Mosambik Lake is a
lake
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in the
Lake Superior
Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh wa ...
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, t ...
in
Algoma District
Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe in ...
,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. It is about long and wide and lies at an elevation of . The primary inflow is the
Magpie River from
North Wejinabikun Lake on the west side of the lake, and there are several unnamed creek inflows, including one from
Kabiskagami Lake on the southwest side. The primary outflow is also the Magpie River, which flows downstream from the north end of the lake towards
Esnagi Lake
Esnagi Lake is a large V-shaped lake in the Unorganized North part of Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Great Lakes Basin, it is about long and wide and lies at an elevation of , with the "V" on its side and the apex facing west. Th ...
, and eventually into Lake Superior.
See also
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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
This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an ar ...
References
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Lakes of Algoma District
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