Mississippi Lake | |
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Location | Lanark County, Ontario |
Coordinates | 45°04′01″N 76°09′56″W / 45.06694°N 76.16556°W |
Primary inflows | Mississippi River |
Primary outflows | Mississippi River |
Basin countries | Canada |
Max. length | 16 km (9.9 miles) |
Max. depth | 10 m (33 ft) |
Shore length1 | 55.9 km (34.7 mi) |
Surface elevation | 134 m (440 ft) |
Islands | Loon Island, Greig Island, Burnt Island, Pine Island, Wilson islands, The Two Crabs, Willis Island, Long View Island, Morris Island, Dinkey-Dooley Island (real name) and Aberdeen Island |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
Mississippi Lake is a lake in Lanark County in Ontario, Canada, about 60 km southwest of Ottawa. It is a shallow and narrow lake, about 10 m deep at its deepest, 16 km in length, and less than one km wide in most places.[1] Around the shoreline are over 1,000 homes, ranging from small cabins, to larger vacation homes, to full-time residences, many of them accessed by private roads. There are also several campground resorts, with RVs, waterfront condos, or rentals.