Lake George is a
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
in
Chippewa County,
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
, United States, and
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 ...
,
Northwestern Ontario
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, Canada,
[ Shows the outline of the channel highlighted on a topographic map.][ Retrieved 2012-10-26] that lies between
Sugar Island in Michigan on the west and the Ontario mainland on the east.
The lake is in the
Great Lakes Basin
The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose di ...
and is part of
Lake Huron
Lake Huron ( ) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is shared on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the U.S. state of Michigan. The name of the lake is derived from early French ex ...
and the
St. Marys River. The primary inflow is the river arriving from Little Lake George at the north, and the primary outflow is the East Neebish Channel to the
St. Joseph Channel at the south.
Tributaries
Clockwise from mouth
*In Michigan
**Rock Bottom Creek (right)
**Wilmar Creek (right)
*In Ontario
**Bar River (left)
**Echo River (left)
See also
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List of lakes in Michigan
This is a list of lakes in Michigan. The United States, American state of Michigan borders four of the five Great Lakes, Great Lakes.
The number of inland lakes in Michigan depends on the minimum size. There are:
* 62,798 lakes ≥
* 26,266 la ...
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List of lakes in Ontario
References
Other map sources:
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Lake Huron
Lakes of Algoma District
Bodies of water of Chippewa County, Michigan
Lakes of Michigan
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