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A lake is a body of water surrounded entirely by land. For the purposes of this schema, any such body, regardless of size, should be considered a lake. This includes ponds, but excludes such bodies as marshes, bogs, fens, etc.
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| x Lake Superior |
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82,100 km² | 4,385 km | 183 m |
Lake Superior (French: Lac Supérieur) is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by Ontario, Canada and Minnesota, United States, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the...
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| x Atlin Lake |
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Atlin Lake is a lake in northwestern British Columbia and is that province's largest natural lake. The northern tip of the lake is in the Yukon, as is Little Atlin Lake. However, most of the lake lies within the Atlin District of British Columbia....
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| x Lake Michigan |
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57,750 km² | 2,633 km | 176 m |
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. The second largest of the Great Lakes by volume The third largest of the Great Lakes by surface area (behind Lake Superior and...
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| x Lake Ontario |
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1,146 km | 75 m |
Lake Ontario (French: Lac Ontario) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and by the U.S. state of New York. It has the...
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| x Convict Lake | 2,393 m |
Convict Lake (elevation 7,850 feet (2,393 m)), is a lake in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada in California, USA. It is known for its fishing and the dramatic mountains (including Mount Morrison) that surround the lake.
The lake was named after...
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| x Lake Waihola |
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Lake Waihola is a tidal freshwater lake located 15 km north of Milton in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. Its area is some 9 square kilometres, with a maximum length of 6 kilometres.
It is the larger of a pair of lakes - the other being Lake...
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| x Lake Bicaz |
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The Lake Izvorul Muntelui, also known as Lake Bicaz is the largest artificial lake on the interior waters of Romania; it was created after the completion of a dam built on the Bistriţa River. The dam is located a few kilometers north of the town of...
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| x Lake Buchanan |
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311 m |
Lake Buchanan was formed by the construction of Buchanan Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority to provide a water supply for the region and to provide hydroelectric power. Buchanan Dam, a structure over 2 mi (3.2 km) in length, was completed in...
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| x Lac de Paladru |
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Lake Paladru (Lac de Paladru) is a small lake located in the Isère département, near Charavines, in France.
The lake was formed by the glacier of the Rhône. It is 6 km long and 1.2 km wide when full. Maximum depth: 33m.
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| x Belton Lake |
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181 m |
Belton Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Leon River in the Brazos River basin, 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Belton, Texas, USA. The lake extends into both Bell County and Coryell County. Belton Dam and the lake are both managed...
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| x Granvinsvatnet | 10.97 km | 24 m |
Granvinsvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Granvin in Hordaland county, Norway.
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| x Feragen | 654 m |
Feragen is a lake in the municipality of Røros in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.
Feragen is also the name of a small village situated at the northern end of the lake.
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| x Lake Balaton |
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236 km | 104.8 m |
Lake Balaton, in the Transdanubian region of Hungary, is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of its foremost tourist destinations. As Hungary is landlocked, it is often affectionately called the "Hungarian Sea". The Zala River provides the...
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| x Finnvollvatnet | 18.92 km | 179 m |
Finnvollvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Namdalseid in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.
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| x Andorsjøen | 20.97 km | 364 m |
Andorsjøen is a lake in the municipality of Snåsa in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.
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| x Blöndulón |
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At 57 km², Blöndulón is one of Iceland's largest lakes. It was created in 1984-1991 as a reservoir for the Blönduvirkjun power plant, and has a greatest depth of 39 m. It is situated near Kjölur highland road in the Highlands of Iceland. The hot...
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| x Fjerdvatnet | 7.23 km | 72 m |
Fjerdvatnet is a Norwegian lake that lies in Hamarøy municipality in Nordland.
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| x Lough Corrib |
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Lough Corrib (Irish: Loch Coirib) is a lake in the west of Ireland. The River Corrib/Galway river connects the lake to the sea at Galway. It is the second largest loch in Ireland (after Lough Neagh). It covers some 165.6km².
William Wilde, father of...
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| x Hoklingen |
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12.74 km | 88 m |
Hoklingen is a lake in the municipality of Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.
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| x Bala Lake |
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Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid) is a large lake in Gwynedd, Wales. It was the largest natural body of water in Wales prior to the level being raised by Thomas Telford to help support the flow of the Ellesmere Canal. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) long by 1...
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| x Lake Austin |
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150 m |
Lake Austin is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Austin is one of the seven Highland Lakes...
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| x Zeller See |
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750 m |
Lake Zeller or Zeller See is a small freshwater lake in the Austrian Alps. It takes its name from the resort of Zell am See which is located on a small delta protruding into the lake. The lake is 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) long and 1.5 kilometres (1...
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| x Lake Engure | 32 m |
Lake Engure is a lake in the western part of Latvia, in the Talsi district. It is the third largest lake in the country after Lake Lubāns and Lake Rāzna.
Lake Engure is an ancient sea lagoon, divided from the sea by a 1.5 - 2.5 km wide sand bar with...
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| x Høvringsvatnet | 20.92 km | 481 m |
Høvringsvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Evje og Hornnes in Aust-Agder county, Norway.
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| x Keuka Lake |
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96 km | 213 m |
Keuka Lake is an unusual member of the Finger Lakes because it is Y-shaped instead of long and narrow. Because of its shape, it was referred to in the past as Crooked Lake. Keuka (pronounced: cue-kuh) means canoe landing in the Iroquois language....
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| x Formarinsee |
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Formarinesee is a lake in the Austrian Alps. It lies in the Bundesland of Vorarlberg and is the source of the River Lech.
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| x Caspian Sea |
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28 m |
The Caspian Sea (Russian: Каспийское море, Azerbaijani: Xezer Denizi) is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 square...
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| x Sálganjávri | 11.31 km | 452 m |
Sálganjávri is a lake in the municipality of Kautokeino-Guovdageaidnu in Finnmark county, Norway.
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| x Nakaumi |
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105 km | 0 m |
Nakaumi (中海) is a brackish lake located between Tottori and Shimane prefectures in Japan. The lake is enclosed by the Shimane peninsula to the north and Yumigahama peninsula to the east. Nakaumi connects Lake Shinji (宍道湖 Shinji-ko) and the Sea of...
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| x Sefrivatnet | 10.52 km | 301 m |
Sefrivatnet is a Norwegian lake that lies in Grane municipality in Nordland.
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| x Buckingham Lake |
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Buckingham Lake, commonly referred to as Buckingham Pond or Rafts Pond, is a body of water located in a residential area of Albany, New York. It has a surface area of 5 acres (20,000 m) and a mean depth of three feet. The lake is adjacent to...
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| x Smallwood Reservoir |
The Smallwood Reservoir is a large reservoir located in the western part of Labrador in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The reservoir is the source of the Churchill River. Unlike other reservoirs, water is contained not by a...
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| x Lake Diatas |
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1,531 m |
Lake Diatas (Indonesian: Danau Diatas, means: Upper Lake ) is a lake in West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located at 1°4′37″S 100°45′17″E / 1.07694°S 100.75472°E / -1.07694; 100.75472. This lake together with Lake Dibawah, are known as the Twin...
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| x Lesjaskogsvatnet | 611 m |
Lesjaskogsvatnet (literally the Lesja woods lake) is a lake which serves as the headwaters for Gudbrandsdalslågen (literally the Gudbrands valley water course). Gudbrandsdalslågen flows through the Gudbrandsdal valley bottom, ending in lake Mjøsa....
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| x Sigöldulón |
The lake Sigöldulón is a reservoir in Iceland, also known as Krókslón. Situated in the south of the country, not far from Landmannalaugar, it is one of the country's 20 largest lakes at 14 km².
Both the lake and the nearby power station ...
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| x Lake Rotoaira |
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Lake Rotoaira (sometimes written Lake Roto-aira) is a small lake to the south of Lake Taupo on the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand. It covers an area of 13 km².
Lake Rotoaira is one of the few privately owned lakes in New Zealand being...
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| x Harker Park Lake | 2,700 m |
Harker Park Lake is located on the northwest face of Burro Mountain in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, United States. It is 7.6 km (4.7 miles) south of the very small town of Buford, Colorado, and 200 km (124 miles) west of the city of Boulder. The...
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| x Kluane Lake |
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781 m |
Kluane Lake is located in the southwest area of the Yukon. At approximately 400 square kilometres, and 70 kilometres long, it is the largest lake contained entirely within the territorial border.
Kluane Lake is fed by the A'ay Chu, which is composed...
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| x Lake of Zug |
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417 m |
Lake Zug (German: Zugersee) is a lake in Central Switzerland situated between Lucerne and Zurich. At present it is formed by the Aa, which descends from the Rigi and enters the southern extremity of the lake. The Lorze empties its waters into the...
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| x Fretheimsdalsvatnet | 16.85 km | 929 m |
Fretheimsdalsvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
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| x Sarsang reservoir |
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The Sarsang reservoir is a large lake in Nagorno-Karabakh formed by a hydroelectric dam.
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| x Lake Turkana |
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360.4 m |
Lake Turkana (tər-kăn'ə, tʊr-kä'nə), formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake....
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| x Makkvatnet | 9.35 km | 117 m |
Makkvatnet is a Norwegian lake that lies in the municipalities of Steigen and Hamarøy in Nordland.
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| x Lake Travis |
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208 m |
Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1942 by the construction of Mansfield Dam on the western edge of Austin, Texas by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Travis has...
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| x Brady Creek Reservoir | 40 km | 531 m |
Brady Creek Reservoir is a reservoir on Brady Creek in McCulloch County, Texas in the United States. The lake is just west of downtown Brady, Texas. The dam and lake are managed by the City of Brady. The reservoir was officially impounded in 1963....
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| x Chiemsee |
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63.96 km | 518.19 m |
Chiemsee (German pronunciation: [ˈkiːmzeː]) is a freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany, between Rosenheim, Germany, and Salzburg, Austria. It is often called the Bavarian Sea. The rivers Tiroler Achen and Prien flow into the lake; the river Alz, out...
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| x Emhjellevatnet | 28.37 km | 125 m |
Emhjellevatnet is a lake in the municipality of Gloppen in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
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| x Longerakvatnet | 23.01 km | 596 m |
Longerakvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Bygland in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It has a dam on it which discharges into the Longerakåni river which flows into the Byglandsfjorden near Longerak.
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| x Kasmere Lake |
Kasmere Lake is a lake in the north-west corner of Manitoba near the provincial border with the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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| x Gopło |
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77 m |
Gopło [ˈgɔpwɔ] is a lake in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland, near the city of Gniezno. It gives its name to the protected area called Gopło Landscape Park.
The Goplanie (Polish tribe) made their home on the shores of Lake Gopło...
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| x Skaneateles Lake |
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263.12 m |
Skaneateles Lake is one of the Finger Lakes in central New York in the United States. The name Skaneateles (pronunciation: "skanny-atlas," preferred, or "skinny-atlas" common) means long lake in one of the local Iroquois languages. The lake is...
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| x Wrangler Lake |
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Wrangler Lake is a lake located in the less-traveled portion of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is fairly isolated, a few miles from the Wapiti Lake Trailhead.
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| x Fagnano Lake |
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Cami Lake (also called Fagnano Lake, Spanish: Lago Fagnano or Lago Cami) is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile.
The 645 km² lake runs east-west for about 98 kilometres, of which...
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| x Funnsjøen | 25.16 km | 442 m |
Funnsjøen is a lake in the municipality of Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.
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| x Muorkkejávrre | 18.01 km | 712 m |
Muorkkejávrre is a Norwegian lake that lies in Sulitjelma, in Fauske municipality in Nordland. The ending -jávrre is the Lule Sami word for lake.
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| x Lake Voulismeni |
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Lake Voulismeni (Greek: Λίμνη Βουλισμένη, Límni Voulisméni) is a former sweetwater small lake, later connected to the sea, located at the centre of the town of Agios Nikolaos on the Greek island of Crete It has a circular shape of a diameter of 137...
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| x Lake Caliraya |
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30 km | 300 m |
Lake Caliraya is a man-made lake situated in the towns of Lumban, Cavinti, and Kalayaan in Laguna province, Philippines.
Lake Caliraya was created in 1937 by US Army Engineer Major General Hugh J. Casey by flooding the Cavinti valley of the Sierra...
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| x Uglich Reservoir |
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Uglich Reservoir or Uglichskoye Reservoir (Russian: У́гличское водохрани́лище) is an artificial lake in the upper part of the Volga River formed by a hydroelectric dam built in 1939 in the town of Uglich. It is located in Tver and Yaroslavl Oblasts...
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| x Geašjávri | 22.67 km | 540 m |
Geašjávri is a lake in the municipality of Kautokeino-Guovdageaidnu in Finnmark county, Norway.
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| x Jølstravatn |
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68.48 km |
Jølstravatn (or Jølstravatnet) is a lake in Jølster municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It releases its water by almost 20 km long Jølstra river into Førdefjorden, a typical Fjord. The impressive eastern part of Jølstravatn is called...
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