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Paudash Lake is a lake in south central Ontario southwest of Bancroft along Highway 28. The lake is located in the Municipality of Highlands East in Haliburton County just north of Silent Lake Provincial Park, and is south of the panhandle of Algonquin Provincial Park. It is about two and a quarter hours' drive northeast from Canada's largest city, Toronto,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Directions from Toronto to Paudash Lake )〕 and approximately the same distance, but a slower drive, west-southwest from the nation's capital, Ottawa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Directions from Ottawa to Paudash Lake )〕 The nearest communities to Paudash Lake are the village of Cardiff, close to the lake's Inlet Bay, and the hamlet of Paudash to the northeast of Lower Paudash Lake. Actually two lakes, 'Paudash' and 'Lower Paudash', the lakes are located on the Crowe River, near its head waters, which flows into the Trent River at Crowe Bay north of Campbellford. The nearest shopping center in the area is the year-around resort town of Bancroft, while the next closest is the year-around resort town of Haliburton. ==Geography and geology== Paudash Lake has several different sections within it; Lower Paudash Lake (Outlet Bay) to the east, North Bay to the north, Joe Bay to the southwest and Inlet Bay to the northeast. The lake has a surface area of and a maximum depth of . Fish species include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, lake trout, perch, pumpkinseed, northern cisco, white sucker, and small bait fish of various types. The area contains over 10,000 lakes which were formed by glaciers some 11,000 years ago during the end of the last ice age. In the heart of the Ontario lake country are the two areas known simply as "Muskoka" and "Haliburton" (which are both actually a district or county respectively). To most people in Ontario, the area is simply part of what is known as cottage country, in reference to the some 250,000 summer cottages on the lakes of southern Ontario. Overall, there are some three million lakes in Canada, which represents 60% of all of the lakes in the World.〔Hebert, P.N.D., ed. ''Canada's Aquatic Environments'', (Internet) University of Guelph, Revised 2002, www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca〕 North Bay has massive pink granite, partially tree-covered cliffs, rising hundreds of feet out of the lake along the shoreline. Except in the bare-rock areas, most of the lake's shore is lined with trees and heavy foliage. The section of Ontario where Paudash Lake is located is part of what is known as the Canadian Shield. During the last Ice age, the glaciers which covered the area removed over a deep layer of soil, scraping the surface of the Earth down to ancient sedimentary deposits, now heavily metamorphosized, as well as the original bedrock (which is the crust of the Earth created during the Precambrian era, some 4.5 billion years ago, when the planet cooled from a molten mass).〔Macdougall, D., ''Frozen Planet, The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages'', University of California Press, 2004〕 (The only area outside of the Canadian Shield, where the original bedrock of planet Earth is exposed in North America, is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It was formed by the Colorado River which, over millions of years, eroded over a mile of the Earth's surface.) As a result, the soil in the Canadian Shield area is typically thin, less than a deep in many cases. In addition, there is a great deal of exposed bedrock, such as the beautiful cliffs on part of Paudash Lake. All of the lakes in the Shield were carved out or sculpted by glaciers, and usually have the characteristically rocky shorelines, although many depressions contain deep glacial deposits in addition to water. In the case of Paudash Lake, and a number of other Haliburton and Muskoka lakes, the local bedrock is metamorphosed sedimentary roack, including limestone (now marble), which helps to neutralize Acid rain which creates problems for lakes throughout North America and Europe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paudash Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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