Lac La Plonge, Saskatchewan
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Lac La Plonge is a hamlet
in Saskatchewan
. It is located on the north shore of Lac la Plonge
, a glacial lake
, within the Canadian Shield
and the Boreal Forest.
Hamlets of Saskatchewan
Hamlets are designated by the council of a municipal district or county when a community has a generally accepted name and boundary. Hamlets can contain non-residential areas within their boundaries, and are administered by the municipal districts...
in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
. It is located on the north shore of Lac la Plonge
Lac la Plonge
Lac la Plonge is a glacial lake of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the Boreal Forest near the Canadian Shield. Lac La Plonge is on its north shore.-Fish species:...
, a glacial lake
Glacial lake
A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create...
, within the Canadian Shield
Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier Canadien , is a vast geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American or Laurentia craton. It is an area mostly composed of igneous rock which relates to its long volcanic history...
and the Boreal Forest.