René-Levasseur Island

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René-Levasseur Island is a large island in the centre of the Manicouagan Reservoir, or Lake Manicouagan, in Quebec, Canada. This lake is a man made reservior created when a hydro electric dam was constructed in the 1960s. Its highest peak is Mount Babel, at 952 m (3,123 ft), which is contained in the Louis-Babel Ecological Reserve. The lake and René-Levasseur Island are sometimes called the "eye of Quebec". With a total area of 2,020 km2 (780 sq mi) (and a diameter of 50.7 km [31.5 mi]), the island is larger in area than the annular lake in which it is situated. René-Levasseur Island is the world's second-largest lake island (the largest is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron). It is also the 35th largest lake in Canada and the 110th worldwide The geological feature was formed by the impact of an asteroid 214 million years ago. The asteroid is believed to have been about five kilometres (three miles) in diameter, and would have hit Earth at a speed of 17 km/s (11 mi/s), the fifth most powerful...

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