Lake Winnipeg
Prairie province giant
Lake Winnipeg is a large freshwater lake in Manitoba, Canada—the eleventh-largest in the world by surface area.
It drains northward into Hudson Bay via the Nelson River.
The lake is central to Manitoba's geography and commercial fishing industry: We spent summers at a cabin on Lake Winnipeg.
- GimliManitoba town, Lake Winnipeg
- walleyeNorth American freshwater gamefish
- commercial fishingHarvesting seafood for profit
- Red RiverNamed tributary, colorful
- spring runoffSeasonal meltwater discharge
watershed · tributary · ice · Cree · eutrophication · First Nations · Icelandic · sandy shores · oral history · archaeological site · pelican · Métis · treaty lands · Hudson's Bay Company · algae bloom · basin · ice fishing · zebra mussels
body of water type
Lake WinnipegPacific Ocean
Largest body of water
Atlantic Ocean · the ocean · Mediterranean Sea · Gulf of Mexico · saltwater