The Lake
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Lake Wanapitei occupies a meteorite crater in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is located near the large Sudbury meteorite crater but is not related to it.
The crater is 5.2 miles (8.37 km) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 37.2 ± 1.2 million years, placing it in the Eocene. It was evident by the mid-1970s that Wanapitei Lake was an impact crater. Remarkably, it lies on the eastern edge of the much older, larger Sudbury structure. Cobbles of suevite, crumbly impact breccia cobbles containing bits of dark glass, are found surrounding the lake. Some contain coesite, a high pressure mineral diagnostic of impact structures. The suevite is very close in appearance and composition to that described from the Ries impact crater.
 Wanapitei Meteorite Crater:
• Age (ma): 37.2 +/- 1.2
• Diameter: 3 to 7.5 km, under study
• Location: Ontario, Canada N 46° 45' W 80° 45'
• Shock Metamorphism: high-pressure polymorphs of silica, coesite and stishovite , diaplectic glasses of quartz and feldspar (Grieve and Ber, 1994). PDF in quartz and feldspar. Maskelynite, Impact melt & Coesite (Dence et al., 1974). Suevite (Grieve and Ber, 1994).
The lake is a popular recreational and residential area in Sudbury, the largest lake in the world completely contained within the boundaries of a single city. The Wanapitei River flows through the lake. There is a provincial park located on the north shore of Lake Wanapitei; this is a non-operating park so there are no facilities. The lake has a number of small islands within it. Named islands include Blueberry, Howie, Wanapitei, MacLennan and Bonanza.
The small Wanapitei Ojibwe reserve is also located on the lake's northwestern shore. The lake's name comes from the Ojibwa word waanabidebiing, or "concave-tooth [shaped] water", which describes its shape. A nearby community which takes its name from the river is spelled Wahnapitae. However, the Wanapitei spelling is correct for both the lake and the river.
The town of Skead is situated on south shore of Lake Wanapitei. Home to over 600 year round residents, Skead was settled about 1921 as a sawmill community, when the Spanish River Lumber Company relocated there from its original mill site, near the mouth of the Spanish River. It was named by the firm's general manager W. J. Bell, in honour of his late father-in-law, Canadian Senator James Skead.
Lake Stewardship
For information regarding the Lake Stewardship groups of the Greater Sudbury area, please click on the following link: Lake Stewardship
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