Sucker Lake is a

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La Salle Township and geographic Osborne Township in the Unorganized North Part of

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in Northeastern

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, about east of the

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of Diver on the

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. It is in the

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and is the source of Sucker Creek. The lake has three unnamed inflows: at the west, arriving from the direction of

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; at the north, arriving from the direction of Serene Lake; at the east, arriving from an unnamed lake. The primary outflow, at the south, is Sucker Creek, which flows via Little Sucker Lake, the Jocko River, and the

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to the Saint Lawrence River. The lake has one island, at the west. The southwest shore of the lake, from the unnamed inflow arriving at the west from La Salle Lakes to the Succker Creek outflow at the south, is along the border with Jocko Rivers Provincial Park. The lake can be accessed from a tertiary road that leads: from Diver northeast to the community of

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; or, via a subsequent branching tertiary road, southeast to

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, at a point about halfway between that highway's crossing over the Jocko River and Lake Timiskaming.

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{{reflist Lakes of Nipissing District

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