Baskatong Reservoir
Laurentides, Canada
The Baskatong Reservoir (Réservoir Baskatong) is an artificial lake in western Quebec, Canada. It has a highly irregular form with numerous islands and deep inlets, and an area of 413 square kilometres (159 sq mi). The reservoir is named after the geographic township in which it is located. Baskatong Township was already named on the 1870 map by Eugène Taché, and the name comes from an Algonquin word obiskitawang or obaskitaong, meaning "a place where the water is constricted by sand", and probably referring to the inlets of the lake that preceded the reservoir. Another theory states that it derived from baskaton, meaning "folded lake", referring to the lake's bulging ice in the winter.
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