The New International Encyclopædia/Georgian Bay

GEORGIAN BAY. An eastern extension of Lake Huron in the Province of Ontario, Can., about 120 miles long and 50 miles wide, and with depths exceeding 300 feet in the southwestern section (Map: Ontario, C 2). It is partly cut off from Lake Huron by a peninsular extension of Ontario and Manitoulin Island, and is connected with the lake by a short channel 20 miles wide south of this island, and by the long North Channel north of it.