Tripoli Creek (Algoma District)
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Tripoli Creek (french: ruisseau Tripoli) is a
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in the Unorganized North Part of
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 ...
in
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. It is part of the
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. The creek begins at West Tripoli Lake at an elevation of . It heads northeast under the
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mainline between the settlements of
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to the west and the Girdwood railroad
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, to the east, to reach Tripoli Lake. Tripoli Creek continues northeast, takes in the right tributary Ryerson Creek, and reaches its mouth at Esnagi Lake on the Magpie River at an elevation of .


Tributaries

*Ryerson Creek (right)


See also

*
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References

* * Rivers of Algoma District {{NorthernOntario-river-stub