Otnabog

Otnabog Lake lies beside the lower Wolastoq, separated from the main river by a narrow strip of low ground and joined to it by a channel. Spring floods cover the intervale, and the lake's level responds slightly to the tide felt up the river. Its name derives from a Wolastoqey form recorded as Wed-ne-bak. Late eighteenth-century maps and land plans show several versions of the name, bearing witness to the lake's place in the long-inhabited river country.