Lake Traverse
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Lake Traverse is the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It lies along the border between the U.S. states of Minnesota and South Dakota. A low continental divide separates the land at the southern shore of Lake Traverse from the Little Minnesota River, which is part of the Mississippi River System and flows within a mile of the lake near the town of Browns Valley, Minnesota.
The lake is drained at its north end by the northward-flowing Bois de Sioux River, a tributary of the Red River of the North. A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam at the outflow regulates the lake's level. The Mustinka River flows into the lake just above the dam.
Prehistorically, the south end of Lake Traverse was a southern outflow of glacial Lake Agassiz into the present-day Minnesota River.
[edit] See also
- List of Minnesota lakes
- List of South Dakota lakes
- List of lakes
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