Ramsey Lake

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Ramsey Lake
View of Ramsey Lake from Science North Marina towards the Sailing Club.
Ramsey Lake
Location	Sudbury, Ontario
Coordinates	46°28′N 80°57′W / 46.47°N 80.95°W / 46.47; -80.95
Basin countries	Canada
Surface area	792.2 ha (1,958 acres)
Max. depth	20.5 m (67 ft)
Shore length1	34.0 km (21.1 mi)
Islands	7
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Ramsey Lake (French: Lac Ramsey) is a lake in Sudbury, Ontario, located near the city's downtown core. Until 2001, Ramsey Lake was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest lake located entirely within the boundaries of a single city,^{[citation needed]} but when the Regional Municipality of Sudbury was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury, Ramsey Lake lost this status to the larger Lake Wanapitei, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the northeast.

"Ramsey" is the correct spelling of the lake's name, although some sources refer to it as "Ramsay"; different sources give the lake's name in both the "Lake Ramsey" and "Ramsey Lake" forms. Prior to the establishment of the modern city of Sudbury, the lake was known to the local Ojibwe population as Bitimagamasing, or "water that lies on the side of the hill".^[1]

Science North is located on the southwest corner of the lake, and offers the William Ramsey boat tour, formerly the Cortina, of the lake several times daily during the summer. The city's Bell Park is also located nearby, and the Jim Gordon Boardwalk connects the two sites along the lakeshore. Laurentian University is also located near the lake's southern shore. Residential neighbourhoods immediately south of the lake are among the wealthiest in the city. On the eastern end of the lake, Moonlight Beach is a popular recreational facility, and the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area is a large wilderness park which offers both recreational and environmental education programs.