Big Mink Lake

Big Mink Lake
View from the dock of a cottage of Big Mink Lake
Big Mink Lake
Location	Hastings Highlands,Hastings County
Coordinates	45°15′09″N78°04′41″W
Primary inflows	Mink Creek; seven unnamed creeks
Primary outflows	Mink Creek
Basincountries	Canada
Max. length	7.2 km (4.5 mi)
Max. width	0.7 km (0.43 mi)
Surface area	1.96 km2(0.76 sq mi)
Max. depth	24 m (79 ft)
Surface elevation	402 m (1,319 ft)
Frozen	December–April

Big Mink Lakeis a fresh waterlakein theSt. Lawrence Riverdrainage basininHastings Highlands,Hastings County,Ontario,Canada.It is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the community ofLake St. PeteronHighway 127and 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest ofBancroft.

Hydrology

Big Mink Lake is a long narrow lake punctuated by severalnarrowsand with a forked north end. Card Bay forms the northwest arm of the fork, and the three narrows from north to south are First Narrows, Red Pine Narrows and Crooked Narrows. The lake is about 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi) long and 0.7 kilometres (0.4 mi) wide and lies at an elevation of 402 metres (1,319 ft). The primary inflow is Mink Creek from Upper Mink Lakes at the northeast. There are seven unnamed creeks as secondary inflows: at the northeast, east from Sud Lake, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest. The primary outflow, controlled by the Mink Lake Dam, is also Mink Creek, southwest to Moffat Pond, which eventually flows via theYork River,Madawaska RiverandOttawa Riverto the St. Lawrence River.

See also

• List of lakes in Ontario

References

• "Big Mink Lake".Geographical Names Data Base.Natural Resources Canada.Retrieved2010-02-26.
• "Toporama - Topographic Map Sheet 31E1, 31E8".Atlas of Canada.Natural Resources Canada.Archivedfrom the original on 10 February 2010.Retrieved2010-02-26.
• "Area Lake Information".Bancroft Ontario.com. 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-10-25.Retrieved2010-02-26.