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Tangier Grand Lake is a lake in the
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Description

Tangier Grand Lake is full of islands, from the largest island, which is long and wide, to very small islands, scattered throughout the western and eastern arms. It is, for the most part, relatively shallow, but it has a relatively deep spot with a depth of approximately in its centre. The lake is located on the Eastern Shore Granite Ridge, an area of 350-million year old granite bedrock.


History

The remnants of a sluice, once used in
log driving Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river. It was the main transportation method of the early logging industry in Europe and North America. Histor ...
, can be found on Struggle Brook, one of the primary inflows into Tangier Grand Lake from Crooked Lake.


See also

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List of lakes in Nova Scotia This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municipality * Anse aux Cannes Pond * The Barachois *Bear Cove Pond * Bear Gulch Ponds * Beaverdam Pond * Belle Lake * ...
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Mooseland, Nova Scotia Mooseland is a small rural community in the Eastern Shore area of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, on the Mooseland Road, northeast of Halifax. The area is known to have deposits of gold and is the site of the first gold discovery ...


References

Lakes of Nova Scotia {{HalifaxNS-geo-stub