Strathy Township is a square-shaped

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comprising a portion of the municipality of

Temagami Temagami, formerly spelled as Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart. The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's First Nations commu ...

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explorations. At least four other geographic townships surround Strathy Township, namely Best Township, Cassels Township, Strathcona Township and Chambers Township.

Features and localities

* Arsenic Lake *

Beanland Mine Beanland Mine, also known as Clenor Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about west of Arsenic Lake and northwest of the town of Temagami in central Strathy Township. It is named after ...

Big Dan Mine Big Dan Mine is an abandoned underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about southwest of Net Lake and just west of the Ontario Northland Railway in east-central Strathy Township. It is named after Dan O'Connor, who firs ...

* Big Dan Shear Zone * Caribou Lake * Caribou Mountain *

Chambers-Strathy Batholith The Chambers-Strathy Batholith, also called the Strathy-Chambers Batholith, is a large granitoid batholith complex in the Temagami, Ontario, Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Named for the Chambers Township, Ontario, Chambers and Str ...

Hermiston-McCauley Mine Hermiston-McCauley Mine is a large abandoned underground gold mine in Strathy Township of Temagami, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located between the southwestern arm of Net Lake and the south arm of Kanichee Lake. History Hermiston-McCaul ...

* Johnny Creek * Kanichee layered intrusive complex *

Kanichee Mine The Kanichee Mine, also less commonly known as the Ajax Mine, is an abandoned base metal and precious metal mining, mine, located in the Temagami, Ontario, Temagami region of northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is near the small unincorporated commun ...

Lake Temagami Lake Temagami, formerly spelled as Lake Timagami, is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay. The lake's name comes from ''dimii-agamiing'' "tih-MEE-uh-guh-MEENG", which me ...

Leckie Mine Leckie Mine, also known as Penrose Mine, Little Dan Mine and Sterling Mine, is an abandoned gold producing underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the eastern shore of Arsenic Lake north of the town of Temagami. It is entire ...

* Link Lake *

Link Lake Deformation Zone The Link Lake Deformation Zone, also known as the Link Lake Zone of Deformation and the Link Lake Shear Zone, is a zone of deformation in Strathy Township of Temagami, Ontario, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provi ...

*Milne-Sherman Road *

Milne Townsite The Milne Townsite, commonly referred to as Milnes, is an abandoned community in Strathy Township, municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Link Lake, just south of the Milne-Sh ...

Net Lake Net Lake is located within the municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It covers a length of 10 km and is located in Temagami North. Fish in the lake include walleye, northern pike, trout, smallmouth bass, whit ...

Net Lake-Vermilion Lake Deformation Zone The Net Lake-Vermilion Lake Deformation Zone, also known as the Net Lake-Vermilion Lake Zone of Deformation, is a zone of deformation in Temagami, Ontario, Canada, extending from Vermilion Lake to Net Lake in a northeasterly direction. See also *L ...

Sherman Mine Sherman Mine is a closed open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada. It was a major producer of iron ore, starting production in 1968 and closing in 1990. Sherman was the largest open pit mine in Temagami, consisting of seven open pits known as ...

Sherman volcano The Sherman volcano is a possible prehistoric volcano in the municipality of Temagami in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Geological evidence indicates that it was located west of the abandoned Sherman Mine and lies in the Archean Temagami Greenstone B ...

Snake Island Lake Snake Island Lake is a lake in the Ottawa River drainage basin in Strathy Township, Municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The primary outflow is a navigable channel to Cassels Lake, which flows via Rabbit ...

Temagami North Temagami North, formerly known as Goward, is a community comprising part of the municipality of Temagami in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It is a residential subdivision centred on Spruce Drive, about north of Temagami itself. In 1924 t ...

Temagami Greenstone Belt The Temagami Greenstone Belt (TGB) is a small 2.7 billion year old greenstone belt in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It represents a feature of the Superior craton, an ancient and stable part of the Earth's lithosphere ...

* Temagami Water Aerodrome * Turtle Lake

References

External links

3548069 - Temagami, geographical codes and localities, 2006
Geography of Temagami {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub