Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Russian: Онежское озеро, Onezhskoe ozero, i.e., Onezhskoe lake; Finnish/Karelian: Ääninen or Äänisjärvi) is a lake in Russia.
Lake Onega has a surface area of 9,894 km², a volume of 280 km³ and a maximum depth of 120 m. It is the second largest lake in Europe, and the 18th largest lake by area in the world. It has 1,369 islands with a total area of 250 km².
The catchment area of 51 540 km² drains into the lake via...
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Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Russian: Онежское озеро, Onezhskoe ozero, i.e., Onezhskoe lake; Finnish/Karelian: Ääninen or Äänisjärvi) is a lake in Russia.
Lake Onega has a surface area of 9,894 km², a volume of 280 km³ and a maximum depth of 120 m. It is the second largest lake in Europe, and the 18th largest lake by area in the world. It has 1,369 islands with a total area of 250 km².
The catchment area of 51 540 km² drains into the lake via 58 rivers, including the Shuya, Suna, Vodla, Vytegra, and Andoma. The Svir, which marks the southern boundary of Karelia, runs from the southwestern shore of Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga and continues as the Neva to the Gulf of Finland.
The lake is in geologic terms very young, formed - like almost all lakes in northern Europe - through the carving activity of the inland ice sheets in the latter part of the last Ice Age. The Onega basin was formed when the glaciers withdrew some 15 000 years ago.
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