Cormorant Lake is a large lake in northern

Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...

, Canada. Administratively it is in Division 21, Northern Region of Manitoba, and it lies almost entirely within the Cormorant Provincial Forest. The lake is about wide and long, with a surface area of over . The village of

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is on the east side of the lake, along Via Rail's Winnipeg–Churchill line. The Cormorant Lake Airport is between Cormorant and Dering. It is the former site of a now-closed military base. The lake can be reached by road on Provincial Road 287 from just north of

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. Cormorant Lake is in the

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basin and is primarily fed from the northeast from Mitchell Lake and Yawningstone Lake and from the southwest from Clearwater Lake; it exits to the southeast into Moose Lake. There are two large islands in the western portion of the lake and a chain of islands cutting northeast–southwest across the middle of the lake.

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