Lansdowne Lake, Pictou County
Lansdowne Lake, Nova Scotia
Lansdowne Lake Geography
- Official Name: Lansdowne Lake
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Hydrographic Feature
- Geographic Feature Type: Lake
- Affiliated Community: New Lairg
- Latitude / Longitude:45.438626, -62.823092
Lansdowne Lake Maps
- NTS Map Number: 011E07
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 11
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: Crown Land Grant Map 088
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045400062800 (Lansdowne Station),
- Other Maps
About Lansdowne Lake
Lansdowne Lake is a small shallow lake, located in Lansdowne Station just west of the Gairloch Road and north of Matheson West Road. It is a popular destination for fishing, with the presence of rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout, smallmouth bass, and striped bass.
It is about 3.7 hectares in size, has a mean depth of 1 m, with its deepest part being just over 5.1 metres. It has an average hardness as CaCO3 (mg/L) of 23.4, and a PH of 7.7.
More details about the baseline water quality of this lake can be found by examining Nova Scotia’s Lake Chemistry data collected from the Nova Scotia Lake Survey Program and provided by the Government of Nova Scotia. The water quality data include nutrients, chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen, temperature, transparency, alkalinity, colour, major ions, selected metals, plus various fish habitat parameters. Temperature and dissolved oxygen profiles are when recorded are also included.
The lake inventory map for this lake is shown in the graphic below, and also available to download online (PDF).
[Source: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables]
Lansdowne Lake Maps
Lansdowne Lake, Lake Inventory Map
Freshwater lakes are typically inland bodies of water, typically formed from depressions in the earth’s surface. They are bounded by sills, and usually fed by streams, brooks, or rivers from the surrounding region. Lakes provide great places to swim, fish, canoe, and generally relax.
Pictou County is dominantly made up of rural areas and contains an abundant amount of fresh water lakes and streams found all across its geography.
Lake Inventory Maps
The Province of Nova Scotia maintains fresh water lake inventory data on over 1000 lakes in Nova Scotia. From that they generate lake inventory maps, that display basic depth contours. Some of the maps also contain data on water quality, fish species, recent stocking history and other information.
Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture provides paper copies of lake inventory maps to the public (by request), and some of those maps have been made into PDF digital versions that available to download. Click here for details on how to obtain paper copies.
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