Lake Nipigon
Lake Nipigon is a freshwater lake in Northwestern Ontario. Part of the Great Lakes drainage basin, it drains through the Nipigon River into Lake Superior. It is the largest lake entirely within the Canadian province of Ontario.
Lake Nipigon
- Type: Lake
- Description: large lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
- Categories: rift lake and body of water
- Location: Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.83333° or 49° 50′ north
Longitude
-88.5° or 88° 30′ west
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
Open location code
86XHRGM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lake Nipigon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة نيبيغون”
- Azerbaijani: “Nipiqon gölü”
- Basque: “Nipigon”
- Bulgarian: “Нипигон”
- Catalan: “llac Nipigon”
- Catalan: “Llac Nipigon”
- Cebuano: “Lake Nipigon”
- Chinese: “尼皮贡湖”
- Chuvash: “Нипигон”
- Czech: “Nipigon”
- Dutch: “Nipigonmeer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Nipigon”
- Finnish: “Nipigonjärvi”
- French: “lac Nipigon”
- French: “Lac Nipigon”
- Georgian: “ნიპიგონის ტბა”
- German: “Nipigonsee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Νίπιγκον”
- Hindi: “निपिगन झील”
- Hungarian: “Nipigon-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Nipigon”
- Italian: “lago Nipigon”
- Italian: “Lago Nipigon”
- Japanese: “ニピゴン湖”
- Kazakh: “Нипигон”
- Korean: “니피곤호”
- Latin: “Nipigon”
- Latvian: “Nipigona ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Nipigonas”
- Macedonian: “Нипигон (езеро)”
- Macedonian: “Нипигон”
- Malayalam: “നിപിഗൺ തടാകം”
- Mingrelian: “ნიპიგონი (ტობა)”
- Mingrelian: “ნიპიგონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nipigonsjøen”
- Norwegian: “Nipigonsjøen”
- Polish: “Nipigon”
- Portuguese: “Lago Nipigon”
- Russian: “Нипигон”
- Slovak: “Nipigonské jazero”
- Spanish: “Lago Nipigon”
- Swedish: “Lake Nipigon”
- Turkish: “Nipigon Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ніпігон”
- Ukrainian: “озеро Ніпігон”
- Uzbek: “Nipigon ko’li”
- Welsh: “Llyn Nipigon”
- Wu Chinese: “尼皮贡湖”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Barbara and Dorothea.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Trout Island and Lake Nipigon.
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