Caniapiscau Lake by MagikUnicorn

Bryce • Landscape • posted on Apr 14, 2008

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Description

Bryce Landscape & sky & water Caniapiscau Lake is a reservoir on the upper Caniapiscau River in the Côte-Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Québec. It is the largest reservoir in surface area of the James Bay Project, feeding the Brisay generating station, and the second largest reservoir in Canada. The natural lakes of the region were formed about nine thousand years ago as glaciers left Québec after having scoured the Canadian Shield for ninety thousand years. The prototype of these lakes was an ice dam lake that drained southwards into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at a time when areas further north (Nunavik) were still glaciated. As post-glacial rebound elevated the southern part of the Canadian Shield more rapidly than the north, the region began to drain northward into the Caniapiscau River, a tributary of the Koksoak River, and ultimately into Ungava Bay. Since 1984, most of its waters are diverted to the west into the La Grande River watershed and James Bay. Prior to impoundment, Lake Caniapiscau covered about 470 km² (181 mile²). Now Caniapiscau Reservoir, which fills a depression in the highest part of the Laurentian Plateau of the Canadian Shield, covers 4,318 km², or about four times the size of the natural lakes it flooded during impoundment from 1981 to 1984. The total catchment area is about 36,800 km². The area surrounding the reservoir is vegetated entirely with taiga, or boreal forest. It is in the zone of discontinuous permafrost and is accessible by bush plane and, since 1981, by a gravel road from James Bay (the Route Transtaïga). At the very end of this road, near the Duplanter spillway, is the former worksite of the Société d'énergie de la Baie-James, named Caniapiscau. Thanks Magik

Comments (56)

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Daramski

3:29PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Fantastic landscape and atmosphere, excellent render!!

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Janiss

3:30PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Quel superbe bleu/violet... de toute beauté MU!

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carlx

3:31PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

A misty place and atmosphere!!! Excellent composition!!!!

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delbeke

3:32PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Lovely landscape, atmosphere and colors

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bakapo

3:34PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

lovely soft, misty atmosphere in very pretty colors.

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amirapsp

3:39PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Beautiful piece...Hugs

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photostar

3:46PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Thanks for the very informative read about this area and your render is very well done, as always, Magik.

wannes

4:00PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Great Bryce-scape!!! Excellent render!!

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mickeyrony

4:02PM | Mon, 14 April 2008

Humm.... A part equivalent to Natural what Magik It is gigantic this realization ((5++))............. Humm.... Une pièce équivalente à la Naturelle quoi Magik C'est gigantesque cette réalisation ((5++))

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