Leo Lake (Manitoba)

Leo Lake
Leo Lake looking west from the portage head to Flintoba Lake
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Location	Manitoba
Coordinates	54°47′24″N 101°33′34″W
Lake type	Glacial Lake
Primary inflows	none
Primary outflows	Thompson Lake
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	0.8 km (0.50 mi)
Max. width	0.5 km (0.31 mi)
Shore length^1	2.31 km (1.44 mi)
Surface elevation	314 m (1,030 ft)
Islands	0
^1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Leo Lake is a small glacial lake approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of Bakers Narrows which drains into Thompson Lake. It is part of the Nelson River watershed, in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada.

Description

The lakes sits in Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests and is surrounded by mixed forest with stands of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and trembling aspen. The shoreline is poorly drained areas of muskeg.[1]

Name

The name was officially adopted in 1979.[2]

Canoe route

Leo Lake is part of the "Mistik Creek Loop", a well-known remote canoe trip which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) in total length and can be paddled in four days.[3] The route begins and ends at Bakers Narrows and from Leo lake there are portages north to Alberts Lake and south to Flintoba Lake.[4]

See also

• List of lakes of Manitoba

References

1. Smith, R.E. (1998). Terrestrial Ecozones, Ecoregions, and Ecodistricts of Manitoba (PDF). Winnipeg, Manitoba: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. p. 88. ISBN 0-662-27446-6.
2. "Geographic Names Board of Canada". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
3. Schick, RoseAnna (21 June 2003). "Live the song of the paddles". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
4. Berard, Real (1968). Mistik Creek Canoe Route. Manitoba Dept. of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014.