Nipigon
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![The Nipigon River Bridge, originally opened in 1937, forms the narrowest transportation bottleneck between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in Canada.](/Images/godic/202501/29/Nipigon_River_Bridge,_19370047.png")
![Nipigon Public Library](/Images/godic/202501/29/Nipigon_Public_Library0047.JPG")
Nipigon (/ˈnɪpᵻɡən/, unlike the lake) is a township in Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located along the west side of the Nipigon River and south of the small Lake Helen running between Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior. Lake Nipigon is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Nipigon.