Devil Mountain, sometimes mistakenly called Devil's Mountain, is a wooded mountain in the
Municipality of Temagami,
Northeastern Ontario
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior.
Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timisk ...
, Canada. It overlies
Devil Island in
Lake Temagami
Lake Temagami, formerly spelled as Lake Timagami, is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay. The lake's name comes from ''dimii-agamiing'' "tih-MEE-uh-guh-MEENG", which me ...
with an elevation of above sea level. A short trail from Angus Point leads to an
overlook
A scenic viewpoint—also called an observation point, viewpoint, viewing point, vista point, scenic overlook,These terms are more commonly used in North America. etc.—is an elevated location where people can view scenery (often with binocul ...
some above Lake Temagami. From here,
Maple Mountain can be seen on a clear day.
Devil Mountain is underlain by
Nipissing diabase
The Nipissing sills, also called the Nipissing diabase, is a large 2217– to 2210–million year old group of sills in the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield in Ontario, Canada, which intrude the Huronian Supergroup. Nipissing sills intrud ...
, which forms a 2.2 billion year old
magma
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tic
province
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with an east–west extent of almost and a north–south extent of up to .
See also
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Mount Ferguson
References
External links
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Landforms of Temagami
Mountains of Ontario
Mountains of Canada under 1000 metres
Sacred mountains of Canada
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