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Nitinat Lake

Lake in British Columbia

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Nitinat Lake is a large lake and inlet on the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The lake is about 150 kilometres (93 mi) northwest by road from Victoria, BC's capital on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest by road from the town of Lake Cowichan. The town of Port Alberni is about 80 kilometres (50 mi) by road to the north. The southern end of the lake lies in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, which also contains Nitinat Hill on the lake's northern shore and Nitinat Cone on the southern shore. Hitchie Creek Provincial Park and Nitinat Lake Ecological Reserve lie on opposite sides of the lakeshore about a third of the way from the lake's northern shore and headwaters, which is fed by the Nitinat River and the Little…

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