Mazinaw Lake
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| Location | Addington Highlands, Ontario |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Primary inflows | upper Mississippi River |
| Primary outflows | upper Mississippi River |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 13 km (8 mi) |
| Max. width | 1 km (0.6 mi) |
| Average depth | 41 m (135 ft) |
| Max. depth | 145 m (476 ft) |
Mazinaw Lake is a lake in the Addington Highlands north of Kaladar in Eastern Ontario. The lake is situated on the upper Mississippi River. It is 15 km (9 mi) long and averages a bit over 1 km (0.6 mi) in width. It averages 41 m (135 ft) in depth with a maximum depth of 145 m (476 ft), making it one of the deepest lakes in Southern Ontario besides the Great Lakes. It is divided into North and South sections of the lake by a narrows, North Mazinaw being the larger and deeper.
Bon Echo Provincial Park encompasses the central section of the lake, including the narrows between North and South Mazinaw, as well as Mazinaw Rock.
A dam is located at the outflow of the lake to control water flow in the spring.
Mazinaw Lake, the second-deepest lake in Ontario, features over 260 native pictographs- often confused with petroglyphs – the largest visible collection in Canada - including the Ojibwa trickster figure and culture hero, Nanabush. The lake's name comes from Mazinaabikinigan-zaaga'igan, meaning "painted-image lake" in Algonkian, referring to the pictographs on Mazinaw Rock which overlooks the lake. The rock also contains a tribute to Walt Whitman, inscribed for Flora MacDonald Denison, who ran the Bon Echo Inn on the site of the provincial park during the 1910s.
Mink can be spotted along the northern shores of the lake.
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