Lake Ainslie
- Area
- 57 km²
- Tonight
- 7°CClear · Wind 16 km/h W
Lake Ainslie is a lake at 57 m above sea level in Nova Scotia, Canada, 57 km² in area and 19.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 57 m
- Length
- 19.5 km
- Shoreline
- 60.6 km
Lake Ainslie in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 60.6 km
Lake Ainslie 3D map
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Lake Ainslie terrain and contours
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lake Ainslie elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Ainslie weather
Today · Clear · 7 / 12°C (45 / 54°F) · Wind 16 km/h W
Lake Ainslie forecast for about 57 m.
- Today7°12°–16 km/h W
- Mon6°13°0.3 mm23 km/h NW
- Tue3°6°–30 km/h NW
- Wed3°6°–23 km/h NW
- Thu4°11°0.7 mm21 km/h W
- Fri8°12°2.3 mm13 km/h NW
- Sat5°11°0.5 mm14 km/h W
- Sun5°12°0.1 mm13 km/h SW
- Mon3°8°19.9 mm27 km/h N
- Tue2°3°0.3 mm29 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 25, 13:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Ainslie
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Ainslie, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest caravan site
4.5 km SE
Nearest campsite
MacKinnons Campground
All mapped places 2
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Caravan site | 4.5 km SE |
| MacKinnons CampgroundCampsite | 4.5 km SSE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 92% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.3% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 355 m low point 21 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 511 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Tricolored Bumble Bee25
- Bald Eagle24
- Eastern Elliptio24
- Sage-leaf willow15
- Canadian bunchberry14
- Pink lady's slipper13
Where Lake Ainslie sits
- Region
- Nova Scotia4Canada335North America1,328
Nearby places
Lake Ainslie downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-07)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)