South Panuke Wilderness Area
44.6796° N, 64.2069° W
South Panuke Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia. 44.6796° N, 64.2069° W
Wilderness area, 71.9 km². Scale bar on the map.
borealbound.ca/parks/ns/south-panuke-wilderness-area/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
- Air Quality Health Index observations and forecasts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
South Panuke Wilderness Area is a 71.9 km² wilderness area 1.1 km northeast of Canaan, in Nova Scotia. It was established in 2015.
16 named lakes lie in or along the park; the largest is Panuke Lake (16.3 km²).
- Area
- 71.9 km²
- Established
- 2015
- Named lakes
- 16
Conditions today
13.4 °C
Observed at Lunenburg, as of 1:00 a.m. ADT
Tonight: Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight. Clearing overnight. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming southwest 20 gusting to 40 early this evening then becoming west 20 near midnight. Low 9.
Weather: Lunenburg (local forecast), as of 1:02 a.m. ADT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:55 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:24 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:42 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:11 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:14 a.m.
- Moonset
- 6:00 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
Air Quality Health Index
2 low risk
Halifax Downtown, as of 3:00 a.m. ADT
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In the park
The 12 largest of 16 named lakes, ranked by area.
| Rank | Feature | Area |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panuke Lake | 16.3 km² |
| 2 | Big St. Margarets Bay Lake | 4.83 km² |
| 3 | Timber Lake | 3.37 km² |
| 4 | Connaught Lake | 2.16 km² |
| 5 | Westhaver Lake | 0.64 km² |
| 6 | Houghton Lake | 0.48 km² |
| 7 | Officers Camp Lake | 0.4 km² |
| 8 | Square Lake | 0.29 km² |
| 9 | Little St. Margarets Bay Lake | 0.27 km² |
| 10 | Long Lake | 0.26 km² |
| 11 | Mud Lake | 0.21 km² |
| 12 | Meadow Lake | 0.19 km² |
Official names from the Canadian Geographical Names Database; each name opens its location on OpenStreetMap.
Official record
- Designation
- Wilderness area
- IUCN category
- II, National parkInternational IUCN class, not a legal designation
- Managed by
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
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