Thompson Lake is a
glacial lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,0 ...
approximately northeast of
Bakers Narrows which drains into
Murray Lake. It is part of the
Nelson River watershed, in the
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay ( crj, text=ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, translit=Wînipekw; crl, text=ᐐᓂᐹᒄ, translit=Wînipâkw; iu, text=ᑲᖏᖅᓱᐊᓗᒃ ᐃᓗᐊ, translit=Kangiqsualuk ilua or iu, text=ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, translit=Tasiujarjuaq; french: b ...
drainage basin in the
Northern Region of
Manitoba,
Canada. The lakes sits in Churchill River Upland portion of the
Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of
black spruce
''Picea mariana'', the black spruce, is a North American species of spruce tree in the pine family. It is widespread across Canada, found in all 10 provinces and all 3 territories. It is the official tree of the province of Newfoundland and Labra ...
,
white spruce,
jack pine, and
trembling aspen. The shoreline is characterized by steeply sloping irregular rock ridges and poorly drained areas of
muskeg
Muskeg (Ojibwe: mashkiig; cr, maskīk; french: fondrière de mousse, lit. ''moss bog'') is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bog or ...
.
The lake contains
northern pike,
walleye, and
yellow perch.
The name was officially adopted in 1940.
See also
*
List of lakes of Manitoba
References
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Lakes of Northern Manitoba
Glacial lakes of Manitoba