| Chaplin Lake | |
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.jpg) Chaplin Lake | |
  Chaplin Lake  Chaplin Lake | |
| Location | RM of Chaplin No. 164,  Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates | 50°24′06″N 106°36′01″W / 50.4016°N 106.6004°W |
| Type | Salt lake |
| Part of | Wood River drainage basin |
| Primary outflows | Chaplin Creek |
| Basin countries |  Canada |
| Max. length | 35 km (22 mi) |
| Max. width | 10 km (6.2 mi) |
| Surface area | 17,141 ha (42,360 acres) |
| Surface elevation | 660 m (2,170 ft) |
Chaplin Lake is a salt lake in the south-west corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The lake is in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, which extends throughout three Canadian provinces and five U.S. states, and within Palliser's Triangle and the Great Plains ecoregion of Canada.[1] Along the northern shore is the village of Chaplin, Chaplin Nature Centre,[2] and a sodium sulphate mine owned and operated by Saskatchewan Mining and Minerals. The lake is divided into four sections by dykes built by the mining company. The Trans-Canada Highway runs along the northern shore and Highway 58 runs through the middle of the lake in a south to north direction.[3]
Chaplin Lake and neighbouring Reed and Old Wives Lakes are situated in a physiographic region called the Chaplin Plain Landscape Area. These salt lakes make up the second largest saline lake in Canada, after the Quill Lakes, and the fourth largest in North America.[4] It is a very important region for migratory and nesting birds and it was designated as Western Canada's first hemispheric shorebird reserve when it joined the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN).[5] At the southern end of the lake, an arroyo creek called Chaplin Creek[6] flows out of the lake and into Wood River, which leads to Old Wives Lake.
- ^ "Drought in Palliser's Triangle | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
- ^ "Shorebird Tour with Chaplin Nature Centre". Nature Conservancy Canada. Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC). Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Chaplin Lake Chaplin, Saskatchewan". IBA Canada. Birds Canada. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Old Wives-Frederick Lakes Southcentral Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan". IBA Canada. Birds Canada. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Chaplin / Old Wives / Reed Lakes named Western Canada's First Hemispheric". Government of Saskatchewan. 29 May 1997. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Chaplin Creek". Canadian Geographical Names Database. Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 May 2022.