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Manitoulin is the largest island in a freshwater lake
The island sits in Lake Huron and holds more than a hundred lakes of its own Manitoulin covers about 2,766 square kilometres in Ontario, separated from the mainland by narrow channels. Its name comes from an Ojibwe word for spirit island. Because it contains lakes, one of which contains an island, it is often cited in puzzles about nested land and water. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Manitoulin is the largest island in a freshwater lake: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The island sits in Lake Huron and holds more than a hundred lakes of its own. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.