Whitesand Lake is a lake in
Thunder Bay District
Thunder Bay District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district seat is Thunder Bay.
In 2016, the population was 146,048. The land area is ; the population density was . Most of ...
,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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, part of the
Hewitson River system.
Whitesand Lake is just north of
Highway 17, about east of the community of
Rossport
Rossport ( ga, Ros Dumhach; also known as ''Rosdoagh'') is a Gaeltacht village and townland in northwest County Mayo, Ireland. It is within the barony of Erris and parish of Kilcommon. It lies close to the mouth of Broadhaven Bay on the headl ...
and west of the community of
Schreiber. The lake is about long at its longest, and at its widest. It is shaped roughly like the letter "H", with an elongated and fatter lower right arm. The primary inflow is the
Whitesand River at the north side of the lake, and the lake flows out at the south-west via the Hewitson River over the Rainbow Falls into
Lake Superior
Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh wa ...
.
Economy
A campground of
Rainbow Falls Provincial Park
Rainbow Falls Provincial Park is a recreation-class provincial park within the Ontario Parks system. This park consists of two non-contiguous parts: Whitesand Lake campground in the main park, and the historic Rossport Campground, east of the fi ...
is on the south side of Whitesand Lake near the outflow to the Hewitson River.
References
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Lakes of Thunder Bay District
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