Naosap Mud Lake is a small
glacial lake approximately northeast of
Bakers Narrows
Bakers Narrows, Manitoba, is a small residential community approximately southeast of Flin Flon on Lake Athapapuskow. There are five subdivisions located near the lakeshore with a total of approximately 150 cottages, many of which are permanent ...
which drains into
Naosap Lake. It is part of the
Nelson River
The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs before it ends in Hudson Bay. Its full length (including the Saskatchewan River and Bow River) is , i ...
watershed, in the
Hudson Bay drainage basin
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in the
Northern Region of
Manitoba
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Canada
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.
The name was officially adopted in 1979; ''Naosap'' is a
Cree word meaning 'fourteen'.
Description
The lakes sits in Churchill River Upland portion of the
Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
The Midwestern Canadian Shield forests ecoregion, in the Taiga and Boreal forests Biome, are of northern Canada.
Setting
This is an area of rolling hills with lakes both small and large, wetlands, and rocky outcrops on the Canadian Shield in no ...
and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of
black spruce,
white spruce White spruce is a common name for several species of spruce ('' Picea'') and may refer to:
* ''Picea glauca'', native to most of Canada and Alaska with limited populations in the northeastern United States
* '' Picea engelmannii'', native to the ...
,
jack pine
Jack pine (''Pinus banksiana'') is an eastern North American pine. Its native range in Canada is east of the Rocky Mountains from the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, and the north-central and ...
, and
trembling aspen. The shoreline is poorly drained areas of
muskeg.
Canoe Route
Nasoap Mud Lake is part of the "
Mistik Creek Loop", a well-known remote canoe trip which is in total length and can be paddled in four days.
The route begins and ends at
Bakers Narrows
Bakers Narrows, Manitoba, is a small residential community approximately southeast of Flin Flon on Lake Athapapuskow. There are five subdivisions located near the lakeshore with a total of approximately 150 cottages, many of which are permanent ...
and from Naosap Mud Lake there are
portages east to
Naosap Lake and south to
Alberts Lake.
See also
*
List of lakes of Manitoba
This is an incomplete list of lakes of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Larger lake statistics
The total area of a lake includes the area of islands. Lakes lying across provincial boundaries are listed in the province with the greater lake area.
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References
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Lakes of Northern Manitoba
Glacial lakes of Manitoba