Kennedy Lake (Vancouver Island)

Kennedy Lake
Geographical location	Vancouver Island , British Columbia
Tributaries	Clayoquot River , Kennedy River
Drain	Kennedy River
	Data
Coordinates	49 ° 3 ′ N , 125 ° 33 ′ W Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ N , 125 ° 33 ′ W
length	16 km
width	12 km

Kennedy Lake is the largest lake on Vancouver Island , British Columbia , Canada . It is located north of the city of Ucluelet on the central west coast of the island. The lake is mainly created by the confluence of the Clayoquot and Kennedy Rivers . The drainage takes place via a short run of the Kennedy River into the Tofino Inlet . The lake also has an extensive north arm called the Clayoquot Arm . The natural attractions of the region have resulted in parts of it being protected from logging by the state. National parks located on the lake include Clayoquot Plateau Provincial Park , Clayoquot Arm Provincial Park , Kennedy Lake Provincial Park , and Kennedy River Bog Provincial Park . The lake is a popular recreational area for boaters and anglers. The water is an important spawning area for sockeye salmon and various other species of salmon and trout .

The lake is part of the tribal area of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations and was named after the last governor of the Vancouver Island colony , Sir Arthur Kennedy .

literature

GE P Eastwood: Geology of the Kennedy Lake area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia . A. Sutton, Victoria 1968, OCLC 356632 ( empr.gov.bc.ca [PDF]).
Margaret Horsfield, Ian Kennedy: Tofino and Clayoquot Sound. A history . Harbor Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55017-682-7 ( books.google.de ).

↑ ^a ^b Area including Clayoquot arm, kilometer information estimated from the fold-out OpenStreetMap map
^ John Dewhirst: Tla-o-qui-aht ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.