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Nistosap Lake
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Nistosap Lake
Nistosap Lake is located in Manitoba
Nistosap Lake
Nistosap Lake
Location in Manitoba
Location Manitoba
Coordinates 54°49′29″N 101°24′59″W / 54.82472°N 101.41639°W / 54.82472; -101.41639
Lake type Glacial Lake
Primary inflows Mistik Creek
Primary outflows Mistik Creek
Basin countries Canada
Max. length 1.5 km (0.93 mi)
Max. width .7 km (0.43 mi)
Surface elevation 326 m (1,070 ft)
Islands 2
Nistosap Lake is located in Manitoba
Nistosap Lake
Location in Manitoba

Nistosap Lake is a glacial lake on the Mistik Creek chain, approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) northeast of Bakers Narrows. As a segment of the Mistik Creek, it is part of the Nelson River watershed, in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada. The surrounding mixed deciduous and coniferous forest is part of the Churchill River Upland portion of the Midwestern Canadian Shield forests. The region around the lake consists of rocky parallel ridges with poorly drained areas of muskeg and irregular stony shorelines due to intense glaciation. The lake is situated on the well known "Mistik Creek Loop", a remote canoe route 80 kilometres (50 mi) in length which can be paddled in four days.

Etymology

Nistosap is Cree for "thirteen". It is notable for being one of fourteen lakes on Mistik Creek named in numeric order in Cree. The fourteen lakes listed by their Cree names with the english translations in order from south to north are:

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