Heathcote Lake

Heathcote Lake
Location Wabakimi Provincial Park, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Coordinates 50°17′01″N 90°23′06″W / 50.283611°N 90.385°WCoordinates: 50°17′01″N 90°23′06″W / 50.283611°N 90.385°W
Primary inflows Flindt River, Manion Creek
Primary outflows narrows to Heafur Lake
Basin countries Canada
Surface area 22 km2 (8.5 sq mi)
Shore length1 54 km (34 mi)
Surface elevation 408 m (1,339 ft)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Heathcote Lake is a lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. The lake lies in Wabakimi Provincial Park, and is part of the Flindt River system, in the Albany River drainage basin. The Flindt River is one of the lake's main inflows (50°13′41″N 90°28′01″W / 50.228056°N 90.466944°W). Other inflows include Manion Creek ( 50°13′08″N 90°26′53″W / 50.218889°N 90.448056°W). The outflow of the lake is a narrows to Heafur Lake (50°19′00″N 90°18′33″W / 50.316667°N 90.309167°W).

The Canadian National Railway transcontinental mainline crosses the lake on an embankment at Flindt Landing.

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