Sproat Lake

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Sproat Lake is a lake on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was known as Kleecoot, meaning "wide open" by local indigenous people. Roughly cross-shaped with four arms, it is over 25 kilometres in length, and has 90.8 kilometres of shoreline. Home of the last Martin Mars type waterbombers, and near Port Alberni, Sproat Lake is a popular summer recreational area for the Alberni Valley. Highway 4 runs along its north shore.The lake maintains a small wintering population of Marbled Murrelets which also nest in the area, the only freshwater alcids on Earth.In August of 2023, Sproat Lake was voted British Columbia's Best Lake by CBC's viewers.

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