Chamberlain Lake | |
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Location | Piscataquis County, Maine |
Coordinates | 46°13′N 69°18′W / 46.217°N 69.300°W[1] |
Primary outflows | Webster Brook |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 14 mi (23 km)[2] |
Max. width | 2 mi (3.2 km)[2] |
Surface area | 10,932 acres (4,424 ha)[3] |
Max. depth | 154 feet (47 m) |
Water volume | 473,380 acre⋅ft (583,910,000 m3)[3] |
Surface elevation | 942 ft (287 m)[1] |
Chamberlain Lake is one of the largest and deepest lakes in the North Maine Woods. The lake originally drained north through Eagle Lake and Churchill Lake into the Allagash River tributary to the Saint John River. Nineteenth-century logging operations diverted the lake into the Penobscot River before designation of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in 1966.