Lake Constance | ... The largest is the Federsee (2.6 km²), near Bad Buchau. About one-fifth of | forms Württemberg territory |
Lake Pateros | ... Dam, and Priest Rapids Dam. The reservoir created by the Wells Dam is named | and flooded much of the original city |
Sevier Lake | ... the remaining lake began drying up, leaving the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, | , & Rush Lake as remnants |
Lake Chad | ... e Zaghawa were supposedly forced southwest towards the fertile lands around | by political pressure and desiccation in their former range. The area alre ... |
Curonian Lagoon | ... iningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. The | (to the north-east) and the Vistula Lagoon (on the southwest) demarcate th ... |
Owens Lake | ... ar the junction of State Route 190, approximately northeast of Los Angeles. | - a dry saline lakebed - lies to the northeast of Olancha. Olancha Creek f ... |
Lake Las Vegas | ... m top finishers in the qualifying events. The world championship is held at | in Henderson, Nevada. For amateur athletes, some 70.3 events act as qualif ... |
Finger Lakes | ... ock Lake is on the east border of the town. Both lakes are considered minor | . The east town line is the border of Ontario County. The shore of Conesus ... |
Skaneateles Lake | ... m either Tully Lake or Skaneateles Lake was discussed during 1870 and 1871. | was chosen and in 1894 the modern water supply system was finally operatio ... |
Lake Eau d'Heure | ... he, Lys and Dijle. The main lakes include the Lake Genval, Lake Bütgenbach, | and Lake Robertville |
Lake Winnebago | ... is rehabilitating and operating the system of Lower Fox River locks between | and Green Bay, including the Locks at Little Chute in Doyle Park. Repairs ... |
Lake of the Woods | ... the Rainy River from the town of Rainy River, Ontario and southeast of the | |
Onondaga Lake | ... ived in the Onondaga village. The French were the first to discover salt in | . During his short stay, LeMoyne drank from a spring which the Onondagas b ... |
Lake Hume | ... na Highway, which continues west through Berrigan to Deniliquin and east to | ; and the Olympic Highway (renamed from the Olympic Way) which diverges le ... |
Lake Michigan | ... Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. It is bordered by | on the east, Great Lakes Naval Training Station and unincorporated Lake Co ... |
Finnvollvatnet | ... uthwest; and Steinkjer to the south. Lakes in the region include Gilten and | . The river Sverka runs through the western part of the municipality. The ... |
Great Salt Lake | ... order with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and | . The associated triple divide points are Commissary Ridge North, Wyoming, ... |
Lake Lewis | ... l places caused the floodwaters to pool into large temporary lakes, such as | , in which sediments were deposited. Water depths have been estimated at a ... |
Red Sea | ... the trade routes between Egypt and Damascus and gave Raynald access to the | . He became notorious for his wanton cruelty at Kerak, often having his en ... |
Tule Lake | ... in was settled 30 September 1909 on land that was formerly at the bottom of | by 65 Bohemian families who named the new town for their former home. McAr ... |
Lake Onalaska | ... to part of a large island bordered by the Mississippi and Black rivers and | . This island has been traditionally known as "French Island." Joseph Fren ... |
Lake Powell | ... and receives its principal tributary, the Green River, before flowing into | , a reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam nearly downstream in Arizona |
Cayuga Lake | The community is located near the south end of | |
Great Sacandaga Lake | ... The X-Files team investigates and soon discovers a UFO at the bottom of the | . The production was only set in Northville; it was not filmed there, alth ... |
Lake Trasimenus | ... ty pursuit without proper reconnaissance. Then, in a defile on the shore of | , Hannibal lay in ambush with his army. The ambush was a complete success: ... |
Hemlock Lake | Conesus Lake is on the west border of the town, and | is on the east border of the town. Both lakes are considered minor Finger ... |
Lake Champlain | ... ominated by natives (primarily Abenaki and Iroquois), and the Hudson River– | corridor had also been used for raiding expeditions in both directions in ... |
Utah Lake | ... n climate, the remaining lake began drying up, leaving the Great Salt Lake, | , Sevier Lake, & Rush Lake as remnants |
Lake Tarleton | Piermont is home to | , which takes its name from its erstwhile owner, Colonel William Tarleton, ... |
Lake Bistineau | Doyline is an entry point to | and the Lake Bistineau State Park. The lake itself, popular for fishing, i ... |
Lake Bütgenbach | ... mbre, Lesse, Ourthe, Lys and Dijle. The main lakes include the Lake Genval, | , Lake Eau d'Heure and Lake Robertville |
Caspian Sea | ... f this grain are found in central Asia, covering a widespread area from the | east to Xinjiang and Mongolia, and it may be that these semiarid areas may ... |
Hickling Broad | It is, after | , the second largest broad, and a nature reserve in the care of the Norfol ... |
Lake Ontario | ... e is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter "Z" on the northern shore of | in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is just west of the head of the Sai ... |
Skaneateles Lake | The matter of a stable city water supply from either Tully Lake or | was discussed during 1870 and 1871. Skaneateles Lake was chosen and in 189 ... |
Glacial Lake Passaic | ... at Swamp. When the glacier melted around 13,000 B.C. the melt water created | . The lake extended from what is now Pompton Lakes through Parsippany sout ... |
Lake Nicaragua | ... caragua. The long San Juan River to the Atlantic Ocean helps drain the long | . From the western shore of Lake Nicaragua it is only about to the Pacific ... |
Great South Bay | The village is located on the western part of Fire Island between the | and the Atlantic Ocean and in-between towns Kismet (West) and Fair Harbor ... |
Conesus Lake | ... n has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (8.10%) is water. | is on the west border of the town, and Hemlock Lake is on the east border ... |
Georgica Pond | ... g to address various beach issues including erosion arising from groynes at | in East Hampton village |
Federsee | ... those in the Black Forest, all lie south of the Danube. The largest is the | (2.6 km²), near Bad Buchau. About one-fifth of Lake Constance forms Württe ... |
Trou Caïman | ... ac is a natural depression that harbors the country's saline lakes, such as | and Haiti's largest lake, Lac Azuéi. The Chaîne de la Selle mountain range ... |
Muskegon Lake | ... Its name is from the Muskegon River, which runs through it and empties into | and subsequently flows into Lake Michigan. The word "Muskegon" comes from ... |
Lake Union | ... ar daily float plane scheduled services from the downtown pier to Seattle's | seaplane terminal |
Lake Genval | ... el, Senne, Sambre, Lesse, Ourthe, Lys and Dijle. The main lakes include the | , Lake Bütgenbach, Lake Eau d'Heure and Lake Robertville |
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park | ... g Barry Island Pleasure Park, Vale of Glamorgan Railway, St Donat's Castle, | and Cosmeston Medieval Village and many more |
Finger Lakes | ... 2.931660, -76.564770). The city is located north of Owasco Lake, one of the | |
Lake Baikal | ... y of Novosibirsk. In 1898 the first train reached Irkutsk and the shores of | about east of the city. The railway ran on to the east, across the Shilka ... |
Tulare Lake | ... , marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pool, large lakes such as now-dry | , the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi, Buena Vis ... |
Lake Superior | ... S. state of Michigan. The township consists entirely of the Grand Island in | just north of Munising. As of the 2000 census, the township population was ... |
Lake Winnipesaukee | ... re, United States. The population was 7,126 at the 2010 census. Situated on | , Gilford is home to Governors Island, Ellacoya State Beach, Belknap Mount ... |
Lake Victoria | There is an inland port at Kisumu which serves | |
Great South Bay | ... sland and even parts of Jones Island barrier beaches and the islands of the | |
Sea of Galilee | Its section north of the | (Hebrew: כינרת kinneret, Arabic: Bohayrat Tabaraya, meaning Lake of Tiberi ... |
Great Sacandaga Lake | ... t 43°13.5′N 74°10.5′W in the Adirondack Park on a northern extension of the | . The Sacandaga River enters the lake to the west the village |
Lago de Güija | ... pital. Other large lakes include the Lago de Coatepeque in the west and the | on the Guatemalan border. The Cerron Grande Dam on the Rio Lempa has creat ... |
Lake Cahuilla | ... nged course into the Salton Sink at least three times, transforming it into | , which at maximum flooded up the valley to present-day Indio, California. ... |
Lake of the Woods | ... city in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States, at the southwest corner of | . The population was 1,781 at the 2010 census |
Lake Lavon | ... water provided by wells, the Garland began using the water from the nearby | |
Lake Karachay | ... ned or even stolen from a waste store. In the Soviet Union, waste stored in | was blown over the area during a dust storm after the lake had partly drie ... |
Queen Mary's Peak | ... 6; Queen Mary College, University of London; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong | ;, the highest mountain in Tristan da Cunha; and Queen Mary Land in Antarc ... |
Owens Lake | ... cha Peak (12,123 ft), passing near the town of Olancha, and finally towards | . To the east of town lie some sand dunes, as well as a hot spring known a ... |
Königssee | ... sted from the early 20th century to the present day. One of these is on the | lake, near Berchtesgaden in south-eastern Germany. Here the lake is consid ... |
Onondaga Lake | ... action with the Onondagas and proposed that they grant him rights to all of | and a two-mile (3 km) band of land around it. The Onondagas agreed and wer ... |
Lake Mälaren | Riddarfjärden, literally The Knight Firth, is a bay of | in central Stockholm. Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the st ... |
Lake Huron | ... f water. Its surface averages 577 feet (176 m) above sea level, the same as | , to which it is connected through the Straits of Mackinac |
Lake Van | ... southeastern Turkey's Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of | . It is the cultural center of the area's majority. The city's population ... |
Lake Chad | ... ith exodus from the collapsed Assyrian Empire c. 600 BC to the northeast of | . The intensity of scholar discussions around this theory proves that the ... |
Fishing Lakes | ... brief holiday; Fort Qu'Appelle and its neighbouring resort villages on the | remain a summer vacation venue of choice; Indian Head is far enough from R ... |
Owasco Lake | Auburn is located at (42.931660, -76.564770). The city is located north of | , one of the Finger Lakes |
Lake Logrin | ... is now Sweden and built various temples. Snorri writes that Odin settled in | "at a place which formerly was called Sigtúnir. There he erected a large t ... |
Jackson Lake | ... e and wintering in the valleys west of the Teton Range. Along the shores of | , fire pits, tools and what are believed to have been fishing weights have ... |
Glacial Lake Agassiz | Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba are remnants of prehistoric | . The area between the lakes is called the Interlake Region, and the whole ... |
Bras d'Or Lake | ... ish Empire when the AEA Silver Dart took off from the ice-covered waters of | . Bell also built the forerunner to the iron lung and he experimented with ... |
Onondaga Lake | The British began to take an active interest in the land around | in the early 1700s. They befriended the Onondagas by giving them guns, whi ... |
Lake Superior | ... by the North West Company between Fort Astoria and Fort William, Ontario on | . By 1825 the Hudson's Bay Company started using two brigades, each settin ... |
Rend Lake | ... Creek and the Big Muddy River, which join south of the town in what is now | . In pre-settlement times the area around these waterways was a swamp, a h ... |
Lake Champlain | ... t New France in 1709. The plan involved an overland assault on Montreal via | and a sea-based assault by naval forces against Quebec. The land expeditio ... |
Lake Quinsigamond | ... d in Central Massachusetts, bordered on the west by Worcester, separated by | . To the north is Boylston and Interstate 290. The south side is bounded b ... |
Gulf of Suez | ... Marsa Talamat. Two Israeli Dabur class patrol boats were patrolling in the | , and encountered two Egyptian Zodiac boats loaded with Egyptian naval com ... |
Lake Michigan | ... n 1830, it was named for the St. Joseph River which flows through it toward | . The county seat is South Bend |
Red Sea | ... d also raided caravans throughout the region. He expanded his piracy to the | by sending galleys not only to raid ships, but to assault the city of Mecc ... |
Ayding Lake | ... e Sino-Nepalese border. The country's lowest point is the dried lake bed of | (−154m) in the Turpan Depression |
Lake Mead | ... ver Basins, before swinging south then west through the Grand Canyon. Below | – the largest man-made lake in the U.S., formed by Hoover Dam at the junct ... |
Buada Lagoon | ... the narrow coastal belt, where coconut palms flourish. The land surrounding | supports bananas, pineapples, vegetables, pandanus trees, and indigenous h ... |
Lake Montauk | ... ith the Montauk Point Light. Small planes can fly into the Montauk Airport. | , a small bay on the north side of town, is home to a US Coast Guard stati ... |
Red Sea | ... the Hala'ib Triangle, a small area of land on the Egypt-Sudan border on the | coast. Sudan claims the area. Egypt's policy on Sudan is that it is in fav ... |
Red Sea | ... sea routes, such as the Spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, | and caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean. The Republic of Venice ha ... |
Rotorua Lakes | ... nd populations are now common on larger coastal or inland lakes, especially | , Lake Wairarapa and Lake Ellesmere, and the Chatham Islands. Black Swans ... |
Lake of the Woods | ... d regular service to the islands and to Kenora, Ontario at the north end of | . One of these ships was the Bert Steele. Several flying services carried ... |
Lake Superior | ... reighters. The blocks of stone used to construct the Stannard Rock Light on | were cut at Marblehead and hauled to the site from 1877 to 1881 |
Sea of Galilee | ... ove sea level. Exiting the lake, it drops much more in 25 kilometres to the | . The last section has less gradient, and the river meanders before enteri ... |
Lake Bruin | ... est of each town. The developed Lake Bruin State Park lies near St. Joseph. | is an oxbow lake created by the meandering of the Mississippi River |
Seneca Lake | The village on the west shore of | . Keuka Lake Outlet (known early as "Crooked Lake Outlet"), a stream conne ... |
Lake Ontario | ... mes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to | finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed. Illegal sales ... |
Vättern | Things to do in the municipality include activities related to the lake | , such as fishing, bathing and hiking. It offers plenty of nature and outd ... |
McCook Lake | ... 4), bounded on the east by the Big Sioux River and on the west by the oxbow | |
Onondaga Lake | ... he last sheet of ice formed the Finger Lakes, the Adirondack Mountains, and | , in addition to other land formations in Upstate New York |
African Great Lake | Lake Tanganyika is an | . It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by ... |
Lake Tohopekaliga | ... ined by the Kissimmee River, the city is situated on the northwest shore of | (locally called Lake Tohoe, West Lake Tohoe, or simply West Lake) in centr ... |
Lake Constance | ... ed in Überlingen, one of the best preserved medieval sites, on the shore of | , on 5 March 1980 at the age of 82, and was interred at Bayreuth |
Paw Paw Lake | Coloma is near the former resort area of | |
Red Sea | ... om in 1182. In the course of the hostilities, Raynald launched ships on the | , partly for piracy, but partly as a threat against Mecca and Medina, chal ... |
Dead Sea | ... Nehar haYarden, Nahr al-Urdun) is a long river in West Asia flowing to the | . Currently, the river serves as the eastern border of the State of Israel ... |
Lake Starnberg | ... d, became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in | . The question of whether his death was self-imposed, accidental, or the r ... |
Lake Titicaca | ... snowcapped peak called Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes, roughly west of | and southeast of Lima. The waters from Nevado Mismi flow into the Quebrada ... |
Grand Lake | ... s, some northwest of Denver. The river runs south before turning west below | , the largest natural lake in the state. After passing Kremmling, it cuts ... |
Watauga Dam and Reservoir | Following the end of World War II, the TVA | were completed three miles (5 km) upstream of the Wilbur Dam in 1948 |
Red Sea | ... and it is thought likely they will become extinct. The eastern side of the | is the home of large populations numbering in the hundreds, and similar po ... |
Lake Okeechobee | ... 81%) is land and (or 26.19%) is water, much of it in the Atlantic Ocean and | |
Lake Michigan | ... runs through it and empties into Muskegon Lake and subsequently flows into | . The word "Muskegon" comes from the Ojibwa/Chippewa word "mashkig" meanin ... |
Lake Bonneville | ... of South Jordan is due to lacustrine sediments of a pleistocene lake called | . Lake Bonneville existed from 75,000 to 8,000 years ago and its peak some ... |
Dead Sea | ... last section has less gradient, and the river meanders before entering the | , about 422 metres below sea level, which has no outlet. Two major tributa ... |
Caspian Sea | ... gest of these consists of much of the interior of Asia, and drains into the | and the Aral Sea. Other endorheic regions include the Great Basin in the U ... |
Iowa Great Lakes | The | is a popular area for many people that swells the summer population in Dic ... |
Seneca Lake | ... city was later named Geneva after the town of Geneva, New York, located on | , to which early settler John Brink saw a resemblance. Geneva, to avoid co ... |
Utah Lake | ... id make records, some errors were made. Escalante had been on the shores of | , which he named Laguna Timpanogos. It was the larger of the two lakes tha ... |
Last Mountain Lake | ... , some ten miles (16 km) to the north of Regina. Regina Beach — situated on | (known locally as Long Lake) and a 30-minute drive from Regina — has been ... |
Lake Michigan | Rich farmland in the area made temperate by | is called the Fruit Belt, and Coloma is located in the Lake Michigan Shore ... |
Finger Lakes | ... took place approximately 20,000 years ago. The last sheet of ice formed the | , the Adirondack Mountains, and Onondaga Lake, in addition to other land f ... |
Harrington Lake | ... residences are provided to the prime minister 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa and | , a country retreat in Gatineau Park as well an office in the Langevin Blo ... |
Gulf of Suez | ... th Herzog and Shazly mentioned a failed Egyptian attack southward along the | in the direction of Ras Sudar by the Egyptian 1st Mechanized Brigade. Leav ... |
Big Stone Lake | ... th other early settlers in the 1860 census as living "Between Big Sioux and | " in the "Unorganized" area of Minnesota, with the closest post office loc ... |
Sheridan Lake | ... outh through the Black Hills to Edgemont. Several man made lakes, including | , provide fishing and swimming. Spearfish Canyon to the north has many pla ... |
Ganoga Lake | Colley Township is home to the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion on | , listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and part of Ricketts ... |
Gulf of Suez | ... outh, covering Adan's flank and eventually moving south of Suez City to the | . The Israeli advance southward reached Port Suez, on the southern boundar ... |
Iowa Great Lakes | The | Area was settled in the 1850s. It attracted many pioneers because of the r ... |
Iowa Great Lakes | ... 00 census. The town includes many businesses related to its location in the | region |
Banana River | The city owns and runs a golf course on the | |
Kootenay Lake | ... lumbia's Arrow Lakes; and on tributaries like the Willamette, the Snake and | . The boats, initially powered by burning wood, carried passengers and fre ... |
Aral Sea | ... parian tugai forests. It also greatly diminished the inflow of water to the | , resulting in an ecological catastrophe |
Lake Tahoe | ... crossed the Great Basin, the Utah-Nevada Desert, and the Sierra Nevada near | before arriving in Sacramento. Mail was then sent via steamer down the Sac ... |
Lake Texoma | ... dow, New York (Long Island) is named in his honor. Eisenhower State Park on | near his birthplace of Denison is named in his honor |
Funnsjøen | There are three major lakes in Meråker: Feren, Fjergen, and | . The river Stjørdalselva runs through the municipality towards the Trondh ... |
Vättern | ... he municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake | |
Crystal Lake | ... e township is irregularly shaped, following the shore of Lake Michigan from | north to Leelanau County. A portion of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National La ... |
Onega | ... uth to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea and the great lakes Ladoga and | . Among the projects is the Barents Road from Bodø in Norway through Hapar ... |
Gråsjøen | ... t tourists from the rest of the country and abroad. The lakes Foldsjøen and | lie along the border with Rindal in the east |
Dead Sea | ... Lake in Trinidad and Tobago and Lake Bermudez in Venezuela), Gilsonite, the | , bituminous rock and tar sands. Asphalt was mined at Ritchie Mines in Mac ... |
Arabian Sea | ... n the region of Makran (Chabahar, Gwadar), Gulf (Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain) and | (Karachi and other parts of Sindh) and tribes including the Jatoi, Rind, B ... |
Feren | There are three major lakes in Meråker: | , Fjergen, and Funnsjøen. The river Stjørdalselva runs through the municip ... |
Mount Rainier | After | , Mount Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes ... |
Dorney Lake | ... opment. It is the location of the nationally important Pinewood Studios and | , which will be holding the rowing events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It ... |
Chickamauga Lake | ... of the Appalachian Mountains several miles to the east and empties into the | impoundment of the Tennessee River several miles to the west. The river fo ... |
Rush Lake | ... ake began drying up, leaving the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake, & | as remnants |
Mittry | Near Yuma are the Kofa Mountain Range and wildlife refuge, Martinez and | Lakes, and the Algodones Dunes |
Lake St. Clair | ... e, the edge of which marks the entrance to the Detroit River and the end of | . A large lakefront park with a pool, gym, movie theatre, and gathering sp ... |
Lake Michigan | ... red by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, | to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wi ... |
Wheeler Lake | ... cated southeast of the intersection of Interstates 565 and 65, and north of | |
Lake Diefenbaker | ... ervoir on the Qu'Appelle River, since 1967 with water diverted into it from | behind the Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River. Electricity is pr ... |
Owens Lake | Located in the Owens Valley next to the now mostly dry | , the arid settlement is home to a major bottled water plant for Crystal G ... |
Mjøsa | ... of Hamar in Hedmark. Because of its access to the river Vorma and the lake | has long provided a thoroughfare to northern parts of inland Norway. Easte ... |
Finger Lakes | ... of the United States, marked by Lake Ontario. Monroe County is north of the | |
Lake Superior | ... ois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and | to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd most extensive and the 20th most popul ... |
Lake Quinsigamond | ... e growth of single-family housing in town and a summer resort population on | became consumers of the market garden produce grown by town farmers. As Sh ... |
Foldsjøen | ... , which attract tourists from the rest of the country and abroad. The lakes | and Gråsjøen lie along the border with Rindal in the east |
Banana River | ... ach; on the east is the Atlantic Ocean ( of oceanfront); on the west is the | |
Ladoga | ... lya, and south to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea and the great lakes | and Onega. Among the projects is the Barents Road from Bodø in Norway thro ... |
Seneca Lake | ... huyler County, New York, and the remainder of the east town line, marked by | , is the border of Seneca County, New York. Starkey is in the Finger Lakes ... |
Arabian Sea | ... rt. Kanishka extended Kushan control to the mouth of the Indus River on the | , into Kashmir, and into what is today the Chinese-controlled area north o ... |
Onondaga Lake | The land around | had been inhabited by Native Americans for 4,000 to 5,000 years. The Five ... |
Caspian Sea | ... h of the northern route turned northwest past the Aral Sea and north of the | , then and on to the Black Sea |
Lake Robertville | ... e main lakes include the Lake Genval, Lake Bütgenbach, Lake Eau d'Heure and | |
Lake Michigan | ... n the Chicago metropolitan area, about north of Chicago’s downtown, west of | , and south of the Wisconsin border |
Attersee | ... 1890s he took annual summer holidays with the Flöge family on the shores of | and painted many of his landscapes there. Klimt was largely interested in ... |
Fjergen | There are three major lakes in Meråker: Feren, | , and Funnsjøen. The river Stjørdalselva runs through the municipality tow ... |
Columbia Lake | ... its journey in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench in British Columbia (BC). | – above sea level – and the adjoining Columbia Wetlands form the river's h ... |
Clear Lake | ... unty, California, United States. It is located on the extreme south east of | , 13 miles (20.8 km) east-southeast of Lakeport, at an elevation of 1,335 ... |
Lake Chabot | | lies at the north of Castro Valley. Directly to the west is San Leandro. H ... |
Cascade Reservoir | Tamarack Resort (2004–09) is southwest of McCall, on the west side of | . Originally conceived as "Valbois" in the early 1980s, the project was re ... |
Great Bitter Lake | ... Sharon advocated an immediate crossing at Deversoir at the northern edge of | . On October 9, a reconnaissance force attached to Colonel Amnon Reshef's ... |
Salton Sea | ... the Coachella valley drops as low as below sea level (the lake shore of the | is South of Indio) |
Lake Tahoe | ... were major box office attractions in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Hilton and | where he would earn $300,000 a week. He maintained homes in both places |
Great Lakes region | ... spread throughout North America. In addition to the Pacific Northwest, the | and the Southeastern United States have had many reports of Bigfoot sighti ... |
Lake St. Clair | ... , the city has a total area of . of it is land, and of it is water (part of | ). The total area is 41.62% water. Grosse Pointe Park has about of borders ... |
Hammervatnet | ... røya. There are many lakes in the municipality, including Byavatnet, Feren, | , Hoklingen, Movatnet, and Sønningen. The Levangerelva river runs through ... |
Lake Baringo | ... at Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology. He worked for it, excavating at | and continued his photographic safari business, making enough money to buy ... |
Lake Montauk | ... f the North." His projects included blasting a hole through the fresh water | to access Block Island Sound to replace the shallow Fort Pond Bay as the h ... |
Onondaga Lake | ... country's cleanest lakes, located southwest of the city. Water from nearby | is not drinkable due to industrial dumping that spanned many decades, leav ... |
Deal Lake | ... program with the construction of a state-of-the-art high school overlooking | |
Lake Ontario | ... line is also the state line and the border of the United States, marked by | . Monroe County is north of the Finger Lakes |
Humboldt Bay | ... of California north of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its location adjacent to | north of San Francisco (via U.S. Route 101) includes marinas and industria ... |
Skaneateles Lake | Syracuse's main water source is | , one of the country's cleanest lakes, located southwest of the city. Wate ... |
Feren | ... of Ytterøya. There are many lakes in the municipality, including Byavatnet, | , Hammervatnet, Hoklingen, Movatnet, and Sønningen. The Levangerelva river ... |
Great Salt Lake | ... ey, delimit Salt Lake Valley, which is also flanked on the northwest by the | , and the north by the Salt Lake Anticline (most notably Ensign Peak) |
Dead Sea | ... ) was the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the | to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It was near Mount Hor, close by the desert ... |
Lake Michigan | ... nty. When it reaches the towns of Saugatuck and Douglas it stops and enters | . In total the Kalamazoo River is long, and its watershed drains a total o ... |
Badwater Basin | ... United States, is on Inyo County's western border (with Tulare County). The | , in Death Valley National Park, the lowest place in North America, is in ... |
Ringkøbing Fjord | ... in Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality, Region Midtjylland. The town is close to | on the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The former Videbæk municipality ... |
Lake Erie | ... Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio is named for Chief Little Turtle | 's Turtle Island, which sits astride the Michigan and Ohio border, is name ... |
Lake Baikal | ... stop 12 km east of Karymskaya, in Zabaykalsky Krai), about 1,000 km east of | . From Tarskaya the Trans-Manchurian heads southeast, via Harbin and Mudan ... |
Lake Bonneville | The lake is the largest remnant of | , a pluvial lake which covered much of western Utah in prehistoric times. ... |
Byavatnet | ... the island of Ytterøya. There are many lakes in the municipality, including | , Feren, Hammervatnet, Hoklingen, Movatnet, and Sønningen. The Levangerelv ... |
Lake Baikal | ... eria to the north of Lake Baikal. It is 320 km long and rises north-east of | , flowing south-west through the Buryat Republic and eventually into the l ... |
Degnepollvatnet | ... the Nordfjord. The municipality is named after its largest island. The lake | is located between the villages of Degnepoll and Tennebø |
Lake Erie | ... southern end) of Grosse Ile in order to enjoy views of the Detroit River or | . The interior section of the island was sparsely populated, as most of th ... |
Lake Shannon | ... ack River, and on the southeast and east by tributaries of the Baker River. | and Baker Lake are the largest nearby bodies of water, formed by two dams ... |
Lake Huron | Located on western shore of | in the Thumb of Michigan, Harbor Beach is known as having the world's larg ... |
Endorheic drainage basins | | are inland basins that do not drain to an ocean. Around 18% of all land dr ... |
meres | ... me areas of the Fens were once permanently flooded, creating small lakes or | , while others were only flooded during periods of high water. In the pre- ... |
Cayuga Lake | ... rved for veterans, but a reservation was established at the northern end of | for natives who returned to the area. A tract at the hamlet of Tyre was gr ... |
Lake Champlain | ... nsus-designated place in Clinton County, New York, United States located on | . The CDP name of Parc is derived from the official name for the industria ... |
Aral Sea | ... d porcelain. Another branch of the northern route turned northwest past the | and north of the Caspian Sea, then and on to the Black Sea |
Kinbasket Lake | ... Nez Perces, Fort Okanogan, and Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment (today under | ), then over Athabasca Pass to Jasper House, down the Athabasca River to F ... |
Red Sea | ... al of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the Dead Sea to the | (2 Kings 14:7). It was near Mount Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is c ... |
Lake Baikal | The Upper Angara River (, ) is a river in Siberia to the north of | . It is 320 km long and rises north-east of Lake Baikal, flowing south-wes ... |
Arabian Sea | ... outh of Sindh and Balochistan, in Pakistan and Iran, along the coast of the | and the Gulf of Oman. The name Makran derives from Maka, borne by an overl ... |
Sea of Galilee | ... n the New Testament, Jesus Christ is recorded to have calmed a storm on the | |
Dead Sea | ... some possibly by Bar Kokhba himself, in the Cave of Letters overlooking the | . These letters can now be seen at the Israel Museum |
Lake Erie | ... ttle Turtle Branch of the Allen County Public Library, and Turtle Island in | |
Lake Wairarapa | ... h becomes lower and flatter in the south, terminates in the wetlands around | and contains much rich farmland. The final section of the region's topolog ... |
Lough Neagh | ... ecoming the Isle of Man, the pebble becoming Rockall, and the void becoming | . Fingal's Cave in Scotland is also named after him, and shares the featur ... |
Lake Erie | ... scape change, and glacial till. The headwaters of three watercourses in the | basin are located in Geauga County. These include the Cuyahoga River, Chag ... |
Lake Erie | ... in 1841 and ran from Piermont to Ramapo. By 1851, the line was extended to | , and was considered an engineering marvel. The tracks are now owned by th ... |
Lake Bonneville | The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger prehistoric lake called | which, at its peak surface area, was nearly as large as Lake Michigan. It ... |
Lake Manitoba | Lake Winnipeg and | are remnants of prehistoric Glacial Lake Agassiz. The area between the lak ... |
Vättern | ... ar for fishing and canoeing. There are several large lakes, including lakes | and Vänern. The Göta Canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg allows for trips i ... |
Lake Siskiyou | ... waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, | , Castle Lake and Shasta Lake |
Caspian Sea | ... ties, they roamed the river systems and portages of Gardariki, reaching the | and Constantinople |
Sønningen | ... ipality, including Byavatnet, Feren, Hammervatnet, Hoklingen, Movatnet, and | . The Levangerelva river runs through the municipality. The Rinnleiret bea ... |
Lake Erie | ... chester. Cuyahoga Falls is named after the Cuyahoga River (which flows into | ) and the series of waterfalls that run along the southern boundary of the ... |
Great Lakes region | ... wo tribes had become closely connected after having been displaced from the | in conflicts with New France and other Native American tribes, particularl ... |
Vänern | ... ng and canoeing. There are several large lakes, including lakes Vättern and | . The Göta Canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg allows for trips in the summ ... |
Lake Geneva | ... nge's competition entry for the World Health Organisation's headquarters on | . Both this scheme and the earlier ones by Kikutake formed the basis of Ta ... |
Skiatook Lake | | , Skiatook Statuary (Producer of the World's Largest Ornamental Concrete, ... |
Vättern | A large part of the municipality borders to lake | . There is a small boat port |
Lake Champlain | Cumberland Head is a peninsula projecting into | , and includes the communities of Rocky Point and Champlain Park |
Third Coast | Lake Michigan has many beaches. The region is often referred to as the " | " of the United States, after those of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ... |
Cascade Reservoir | ... he Cascade Dam in 1948, much of the northern valley has been covered by the | . The population was 9,862 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Cascade, ... |
Movatnet | ... s in the municipality, including Byavatnet, Feren, Hammervatnet, Hoklingen, | , and Sønningen. The Levangerelva river runs through the municipality. The ... |
Lake Erie | While the majority of waterways in Geauga County are part of the | watershed, the Silver Creek in Troy Township is a tributary to the west br ... |
Lake Natron | ... Olduvai. It was from a casual aerial survey that he noted the potential of | 's shores for paleontology. He went looking for fossils in a Land Rover, b ... |
Lake Hula | The river drops rapidly in a 75 kilometre run to swampy | , which is slightly above sea level. Exiting the lake, it drops much more ... |
Lake Ontario | ... . For periods of drought, there is also a backup line which uses water from | |
Banks Lake | ... , from which water was pumped into the dry coulee, forming the reservoir of | |
Luoma Lake | ... s ‘Middle Canal’ section runs from Huai'an to Weishan Lake, passing through | and following more than one course, the result of the impact of centuries ... |
Lake Saint Clair | ... s 11,555 at the 2010 census. Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern | , it is the westernmost of the noted Grosse Pointe suburbs, with the oldes ... |
Geneva Lake | ... ates. The population was 7,148 at the 2000 census. A resort city located on | , it is southwest of Milwaukee and popular with tourists from metropolitan ... |
Red Sea | ... ocean, the rift system is flooded with seawater and becomes a new sea. The | is an example of a new arm of the sea. The East African rift was thought t ... |
Lake Baikal | ... r biodiversity and one of the most biodiverse wetlands in the entire world. | |
Glacial Lake Great Falls | ... 11,000 BCE, the Laurentide ice sheet blocked the Missouri River and created | . About 13,000 BCE, as the glacier retreated, Glacial Lake Great Falls emp ... |
Lerna | ... about to rape her. To possess her himself, the god revealed the springs of | , a cult site of great antiquity near the shores of the Argolid. To Poseid ... |
Mjøsa | ... bordered on the north by Østre Toten (in Oppland county on the west side of | ) and by Stange (on the east side of the lake) and to the east by Nord-Oda ... |
Lake Kivu | ... r northeast this is due primarily to the Ituri conflict. In the area around | , primarily in North Kivu, fighting continues among the Democratic Forces ... |
Sebbins Pond | ... 5% of the town. The largest body of water other than the Merrimack River is | , which is connected to smaller, neighboring bodies of water by Sebbins Br ... |
Lake Champlain | ... rs who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and | , an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermo ... |
Jølstravatn | ... rup's days, nestled among the steep but fertile slopes on the south side of | . The barn was torn down and rebuilt as a gallery, but in the same style a ... |
Wallowa Lake | ... rap. The Nez Perce put these traps in the Wallowa River below the outlet of | . The author of Oregon Geographic Names, Lewis A. McArthur, said that alth ... |
Dead Sea | Although it has been called "America's | ", the lake provides habitat for millions of native birds, brine shrimp, s ... |
no outlet | ... s before entering the Dead Sea, about 422 metres below sea level, which has | . Two major tributaries enter from the east during this last section: the ... |
Lake Van | ... rslan was either further away or not coming at all, Romanos marched towards | expecting to retake Manzikert rather quickly, as well as the nearby fortre ... |
Hoklingen | ... e many lakes in the municipality, including Byavatnet, Feren, Hammervatnet, | , Movatnet, and Sønningen. The Levangerelva river runs through the municip ... |
Lake Quinault | ... triangular shaped Quinault Indian Reservation between the Pacific Ocean and | |
Ringkøbing Fjord | ... he municipality's main town and the site of its municipal council was Tarm. | defined its northwestern border |
Crater Lake | ... g, and world-class trout fishing, as well as Oregon's only National Park at | , contribute to the economy of the area. A complex of six National Wildlif ... |
Red Sea | ... a. The land routes were supplemented by sea routes, which extended from the | to coastal India, China and Southeast Asia |
Lake Washington | ... Brevard County. It includes the Indian River. Additional waterways include | , Lake Poinsett, Lake Winder, Sawgrass Lake, the St. Johns River, and the ... |
Gun Lake | ... s dotted with numerous small lakes. The extreme southeast corner touches on | |
Lake Erie | ... a county, the northern border included submerged land beneath the waters of | |
Venetian Lagoon | ... s a result of these attacks when the residents fled to small islands in the | . His army sacked numerous cities and razed Aquileia completely, leaving n ... |
Red Sea | ... magnetic observations made by him in the course of several journeys to the | and the Levant. The general account of the travels of the two brothers was ... |
Finger Lakes | The east town line is defined by Owasco Lake, one of the | |
Dead Sea | ... particular with Bedouins in the Negev and the population to the east of the | . The Jerusalem geographer al-Muqaddasi, writing in 985 described the town ... |
Dead Sea | ... ile downstream stretch - a meandering stream from the Sea of Galilee to the | . Environmentalists say the practice has almost destroyed the river's ecos ... |
Badwater | ... st point in the Western Hemisphere and the lowest point in North America at | , which is below sea level. It is home to many species of plants and anima ... |
Lake Geneva | ... robbers were captured, and the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near | . His body was reburied under of concrete to prevent further attempts |
Salton Sea | ... to champion many of Sonny's causes, including the ongoing fight to save the | |
Lake Gaston | ... South Hill has a close relationship with the neighboring town of La Crosse. | , a large reservoir popular with boaters and fishermen, is a short distanc ... |
Lake Teletskoye | A vast area of 16,178 km² – Altai and Katun Natural Reserves, | , Mount Belukha and the Ukok Plateau – comprise a natural UNESCO World Her ... |
Lake Artemesia | ... store. The area was originally envisioned as a resort-type community around | . However, due to the flood-prone, low-lying topography, the neighborhood ... |
Morro Bay | ... ined because the name would be too easily confused with the coastal town of | . Instead, the railroad directed the station be called Moron, a word which ... |
Tyrifjorden | ... iker. It is one of the largest rivers in Norway, with a course running from | in the north to Drammensfjord in the south |
Lake Erie | ... d Portage Trail, which crosses the southwest corner of the city, to go from | to the Ohio River basin |
Cave Lake State Park | ... f the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Nearby are Great Basin National Park, | , and Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, as well as the state parks ... |
Salton Sea | ... e seasonal bird migration flight routes that cross the town on route to the | |
Humboldt Bay | ... town of Arcata, site of Humboldt State University, are located adjacent to | , California's second largest natural bay. Area cities and towns are known ... |
Arabian Sea | ... nse to the attacks, and the ship changed course to travel towards the North | , where she launched the first airstrikes in support of the operation on 7 ... |
Glacial Lake Passaic | After the retreat of the Wisconsin Glacier, a mighty glacial lake called | formed in this area that, about 15,000 to 11,000 years ago, extended for i ... |
Wachusett Reservoir | ... riculture, and erected mills on the Nashua River, until the construction of | terminated their operation |
Lake Michigan | ... led Lake Bonneville which, at its peak surface area, was nearly as large as | . It spanned , which is roughly ten times the area of the Great Salt Lake. ... |
Red Sea | ... ereignty of the Hala'ib Triangle with Sudan, an area of land located on the | coast, between the political borders (at the 22nd circle of latitude) and ... |
Lake Texcoco | ... kill him. Huitzilopochtli then took his heart and threw it in the middle of | . Many years later, Huitzilopochtli ordered the Aztecs to search for Copil ... |
Kagerplassen | ... ters from Amsterdam to its north. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes ( | ) lies just to the northeast of Leiden |
Skiatook Lake | ... 1930s, Skiatook began purchasing water from Spavinaw, but the completion of | in 1984 gave Skiatook its own water source |
Lake Winnipesaukee | ... he south. Much of the town is drained by the Gunstock River, a tributary of | . Gilford lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed |
Caspian Sea | ... rowing ponds. The common carp's native range also extends to the Black Sea, | and |
Lake Huron | ... y in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on | . As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and is the prin ... |
Caspian Sea | ... assume that the Varangians travelled significantly beyond Byzantium and the | |
Lake Pontchartrain | ... .161716), on the banks of the Tchefuncte River, near where the river enters | |
Szczecin Lagoon | Water from the river Oder flows into the | and from there through the Peene west of Usedom, Świna and Dziwna into the ... |
Dozmary Pool | | is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthuria ... |
Wachusett Reservoir | ... arly 4400 residents, the town is predominantly a residential community. The | , Boston's water source, lies in the northwestern part of the town and cov ... |
Lake Cahuilla | ... It is adjacent to the geologic Salton Sink and within the site of historic | of the Lower Colorado River Valley. Indio is an official National Bird San ... |
Breimsvatn | ... h: the water-end) in the western part, where the river Jølstra starts. Lake | is also partially located in Jølster |
Powai | ... s located at Powai, a suburb in north eastern Mumbai, between the Vihar and | lakes. The campus is divided into clusters of buildings. The academic area ... |
Lake Superior | ... t of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after | and Lake Huron (and is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virgin ... |
Lake Balaton | ... some 150 tanks, in direct support just behind the front line south west of | . The Soviets had been building up their forces for their own offensive al ... |
Glacial Lake Missoula | ... s toward the end of the last ice age. The periodic rupturing of ice dams at | resulted in the Missoula Floods, with discharges 10 times the combined flo ... |
Lake Van | At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of | , Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan. The sultan proposed terms of peace, whic ... |
Lake Erie | ... rs. The overflow runs into Green Creek and eventually into Sandusky Bay and | . In the early 19th century, Jacob Stem used the water to establish the ar ... |
Salton Sea | ... o evaporate after the Colorado resumed flowing to the Gulf. The present-day | can be considered the most recent incarnation of Lake Cahuilla, though on ... |
Owasco Lake | The Town of Fleming is at the north end of | , south of Auburn, New York |
Jackson Lake | ... nd highest summit in the range. The park has numerous lakes, including long | as well as streams of varying length and the uppermost reaches of the Snak ... |
Lake Okeechobee | ... d with South Florida's growth and the relocation of steamship operations to | , left Kissimmee dependent on cattle raising |
Lake Huron | ... ater plant. The site was located at Douglas Point near Tiverton, Ontario on | where it had access to the waters of the Great Lakes |
Rutland Water | ... to pump 16,500 Olympic-size swimming pools in a 24-hour period or to empty | in 3 days |
Great Bitter Lake | ... ke through the Tasa corridor and crossed the Suez Canal to the north of the | . After intense fighting, Israeli progress towards Cairo was brought to a ... |
Lake Erie | ... is bordered by the city of Cleveland on three sides and by the shoreline of | to the north. The population was 1,197 at the 2010 census. Bratenahl is ra ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... afterglows and pre-sunrise glows. A number of eruptions, including those of | in 1991 and Krakatoa in 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratospheri ... |
Watauga Lake | ... nessee. At Hampton the line split off and ran to a sawmill near present-day | |
Delta Marsh | Twin Lakes Beach, Manitoba | |
Sea of Galilee | ... operations officer, as the Syrians desperately tried to advance towards the | and Nafah. At this point, the Barak Brigade stopped functioning as a cohes ... |
Lake Huron | ... mall unincorporated community within the township located near the shore of | . It is approximately 15 miles north of Alpena, and 15 miles south of Roge ... |
Lake Michigan | McHenry County originally stretched all the way east to | , with the county seat centrally in McHenry, but in 1839, the eastern town ... |
Arabian Sea | ... South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a coastline along the | and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Af ... |
Tulare Lake | ... ed during heavy snowmelt and spilled out into the San Joaquin River. Called | , it is usually dry nowadays because the rivers feeding it have been diver ... |
Liberty Lake | ... e). "Homestead," a retirement village, consists of 1,200 homes in Columbus. | is a freshwater spring-fed lake, that allows boating, swimming and fishing |
Red Sea | The Himyarites had united Southwestern Arabia, controlling the | as well as the coasts of the Gulf of Aden. From their capital city, the Hi ... |
Big Lagoon | ... lus ket'oh, "to be a lagoon". The same name was also used by the Yuroks for | . The natives of this region are the farthest-southwest people whose langu ... |
Lake Geneva | ... cally a firm Unionist. Several spent much time abroad, and a famous stay on | with Byron and Shelley in 1816 produced the hugely influential novel Frank ... |
Sea of Galilee | Small sections of the Jordan's upper portion, near the | , have been kept pristine for baptisms. Most polluted is the 60-mile downs ... |
Morro Bay | ... California along California State Route 1 between Cambria to the north and | to the south. The population was 2,592 at the 2010 census, down from 2,943 ... |
Lake Memphremagog | ... d Charleston, the southwest by Coventry and Brownington, and to the west by | |
Lake Memphremagog | ... lligo-sigo by the natives. Its current is slow. The drop from its source to | , including the falls at Irasburg and Coventry, is 190 feet. Wild branch, ... |
Lake Victoria | Part of the | system is within the boundaries of Kenya. Kenya has a major international ... |
Great Salt Lake | ... and returning members of the Mormon Battalion providing a path north of the | from Salt Lake City back to the California and Oregon Trails. This cutoff ... |
Jølstravatn | The | lake splits the municipality in half—creating two centres of population at ... |
Lake Constance | ... Tyrol, but his flight was discovered. He was apprehended near Wasserburg on | , brought back to Tyrol, and imprisoned in Castle Vellenberg (later Castle ... |
Vihar | ... y campus is located at Powai, a suburb in north eastern Mumbai, between the | and Powai lakes. The campus is divided into clusters of buildings. The aca ... |
Bras d'Or | ... highlands of its northern cape. One of the world's larger salt water lakes, | ("Arm of Gold" in French), dominates the centre of the island |
Red Sea | ... g, depicted the massive constructions of Rameses with models, and split the | in a still-impressive combination of travelling mattes and water tanks. Ra ... |
Chain O'Lakes | In addition, the Fox River and | provide immense opportunities for boating, fishing, swimming, and other wa ... |
Cayuga Lake | ... located in Ithaca on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and | |
Mount Rainier | ... in the mountains, and temperatures vary with elevation. The highest peak is | , at . High elevations have cold winters and short cool summers; interior ... |
Lake Monona | ... he four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota ("Fourth Lake"), | ("Third Lake"), Lake Waubesa ("Second Lake") and Lake Kegonsa ("First Lake ... |
Lagos Lagoon | ... boats and for commerce, are in the Niger Delta and all along the coast from | to Cross River |
Lake Dardanelle | ... ansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant. Russellville borders | as well as the Arkansas River |
Lake Kivu | ... beginning 10.6 ka, is the Ruzizi River, entering the north of the lake from | . The Malagarasi River, which is Tanzania's second largest river, enters t ... |
Lake Victoria | ... 64. It was situated between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of | , Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika. It gained independence from the United ... |
Delta Marsh | ... n tip of the lake, 24 km north of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, ends in the | , an important staging ground for migrating birds |
Lake Manitou | ... ds; in turn several of these "islands within islands" have their own ponds. | (about 104 km 2 - 40.5 sq. mi.) is the largest lake in a freshwater island ... |
Salton Sea | ... atural phenomena such as the Grand Canyon and created phenomena such as the | . The Columbia is a large river, long, in central western North America an ... |
Roopkund | ... . One of the earliest recorded incidents occurred around the 9th century in | , Uttarakhand, India. The largest hailstone in terms of diameter and weigh ... |
Lake Huron | ... es by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and | (and is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia). Hydrologic ... |
Gulf of Suez | ... blockade the Israeli Mediterranean coastline. The Egyptians also mined the | to prevent the transportation of oil from the Bala'eem and Abu Rudeis oil ... |
Lake Superior | Wisconsin is bordered by the Montreal River | ;and Michigan to the north; by Lake Michigan to the east; by Illinois to t ... |
Great Salt Lake | ... spiral-inspired art is Robert Smithson's earthwork, "Spiral Jetty", at the | in Utah. The spiral theme is also present in David Wood's Spiral Resonance ... |
African Great Lakes | ... Africa from 1961 to 1964. It was situated between the Indian Ocean and the | of Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika. It gained independence ... |
Attersee | ... and in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found at the Mondsee and | lakes in Upper Austria. Early archaeologists like Ferdinand Keller thought ... |
Lake Saint Clair | Being situated on the western shores of | , the county's name is taken from the lake. An expedition led by the Frenc ... |
Lake Champlain | ... the eastern boundary of the State. The eastern boundary of Essex County is | , which serves as the New York-Vermont border. The highest natural point i ... |
Vänern | The Göta is a river that drains lake | into the Kattegat at the city of Gothenburg on the western coast of Sweden ... |
Lake Okeechobee | Lakeland, like most of Florida north of | , is located in the humid subtropical zone (Köppen climate classification: ... |
Lake Baikal | ... be found on the seafloor, in ocean sediments, in deep lake sediments (e.g. | ), as well as in the permafrost regions. The amount of methane potentially ... |
Teletskoye | ... Bashkaus, Chulyshman, and Chulcha, all three leading to the alpine lake of | (length, 80 km; maximum width, 5 km; altitude, 520 m; area, 230.8 square k ... |
Lake Assad | The site was excavated as a rescue operation before it would be flooded by | , the reservoir of the Tabqa Dam which was being built at that time. The s ... |
Utah Lake | ... n and Colorado rivers connecting with the Sevier River (Rio San Ysabel) and | (Lake Timpanogos) before flowing west through the Sierra Nevada into Calif ... |
Dozmary Pool | On the southern slopes of the moor lies | . It is Cornwall's only natural inland lake and is glacial in origin. In t ... |
Lake Mindemoya | ... he largest lake in a freshwater island in the world, and Treasure Island in | is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world. Namel ... |
Lake Chad | ... and south by mountain ranges such as the Ennedi Plateau in the north-east. | , after which the country is named, is the remains of an immense lake that ... |
Lake Mendota | ... ty of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: | ("Fourth Lake"), Lake Monona ("Third Lake"), Lake Waubesa ("Second Lake") ... |
Gilten | ... n to the southwest; and Steinkjer to the south. Lakes in the region include | and Finnvollvatnet. The river Sverka runs through the western part of the ... |
Indian River Lagoon | ... 34.60%) is water, primarily the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Johns River and the | . The county is larger in area than the nation of Samoa and nearly the sam ... |
Lake Malawi | ... ated between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of Lake Victoria, | and Lake Tanganyika. It gained independence from the United Kingdom as a C ... |
Lake Huron | ... is a large bay of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as | (among other shared properties). It is bounded, from west to east, by the ... |
Lake Sammamish | ... g a drumlin field of hundreds of aligned drumlin hills. Lake Washington and | (which are ribbon lakes), Hood Canal, and the main Puget Sound basin were ... |
Lake Pontchartrain | ... rleans, where he used his savings to buy then-inexpensive land northwest of | . There he started a plantation to grow trees, which he made into masts, c ... |
Canandaigua Lake | ... er landmarks. Public drinking water is provided by treated water piped from | |
Lake Van | ... at or Urartu or Biainili), was formed in the 9th century BC in the basin of | of the Armenian Highland, including the territory of modern-day Yerevan. K ... |
Lake Wingra | ... not actually in Madison, but rather just south of it. A fifth smaller lake, | , is within the city as well; it is connected to the Yahara River chain by ... |
Lake George | ... ty, Florida, United States. It is located along the St. Johns River between | and Lake Dexter, across from the community of Volusia. The population was ... |
Lake Amadeus | ... y untrodden country to the north-west and west. Finding their way barred by | and that their horses were getting very weak, a return was made to the Fin ... |
Dead Sea | ... be split in the middle by an Israeli-controlled road from Jerusalem to the | , with free passage for Palestinians, although Israel reserved the right t ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... by several years of dark, deep red eclipses. The effect of the eruption of | on subsequent lunar eclipses was very noticeable, with the eclipse of 9 De ... |
Bully Creek Reservoir | ... o the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. | is about west of Ontario, accessed through Vale |
Taos Pueblo | ... ists. Making paintings with oil and watercolor was a new form of art to the | who traditionally painted objects such as hides or inside buildings, such ... |
Lake Superior | ... erican Fur Company), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on | |
Big Stone Lake | ... ac qui Parle counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota at the southern tip of | , along the border with South Dakota. The population was 1,916 at the 2010 ... |
Dead Sea | ... e water is typically more saline than the oceans. An extreme example is the | |
Lake Keowee | ... Hartwell, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1955 and 1963. | is the second largest lake and the Oconee Nuclear Station operates by the ... |
Lough Neagh | ... who was transformed into a mermaid when her country was flooded (today the | lake in Northern Ireland). She lived under the sea with her dog (who in th ... |
Veluwemeer | ... and heaths is a popular activity, especially during the summer. The nearby | allows for recreation on the water or beach. The town centre is home to va ... |
Grays Lake | | , the Village's largest lake, is located in the center of the village and ... |
Lake Erie | ... -82.226201). The elevation is above sea level. Amherst is located south of | . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area ... |
El Chichón | ... both after the transient warming related to explosive volcanic eruptions of | and , this behavior of the global stratospheric temperature has been attri ... |
Lake Baikal | ... lian Railway, which coincides with the Trans-Siberian as far as Ulan-Ude on | 's eastern shore. From Ulan-Ude the Trans-Mongolian heads south to Ulaan-B ... |
Lake Minnetonka | ... en is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, on the shores of | . It is 16 miles from Minneapolis. The population was 3,642 at the 2010 Ce ... |
Norefjorden | ... strait". The name originally belonged to the vicarage (and church site) at | |
Lake Superior | ... Italy; Victoria in Australia; Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean; in the | copper district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, an ... |
Niuafo'ou | ... nd" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" ( | ). On April 28 they discovered the Hoorn Islands (Futuna and Alofi), where ... |
Lake Koshkonong | ... n offer from the Rock River Ho-Chunks, the band traveled further upriver to | in the Michigan Territory and camped in an isolated place known as the "Is ... |
Caspian Sea | ... its present location in a series of migrations from northern Iran region of | . Rakshani is the major dialect group in terms of numbers. Sarhaddi, is a ... |
Lake Waubesa | ... the Yahara River: Lake Mendota ("Fourth Lake"), Lake Monona ("Third Lake"), | ("Second Lake") and Lake Kegonsa ("First Lake"), although Waubesa and Kego ... |
Humboldt Bay | ... ka-Arcata-Fortuna micropolitan area, located on a coastal plain adjacent to | |
Lake Ladoga | ... ne existed: Ivan VI (1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in | , from the age of 6 months; and Princess Tarakanova (1753–1775). Ivan VI w ... |
Lake Constance | ... Basel for many centuries possessed the only bridge over the river "between | and the sea" |
Lake Vänern | ... is located right in the middle of Västra Götaland County, by the shores of | |
El Chichón | ... sed by transient volcanic warming after the explosive volcanic eruptions of | and Mount Pinatubo, little temperature trend has been observed since 1995 |
Lake Michigan | ... bordered by the Montreal River; Lake Superior and Michigan to the north; by | to the east; by Illinois to the south; and by Iowa to the southwest and Mi ... |
Lake Jocassee | ... he second largest lake and the Oconee Nuclear Station operates by the lake. | is the third largest and is a source of hydroelectric energy, but is also ... |
Lake Washington | ... total distribution area is about Two water treatment plants take water from | and deep wells, providing of drinking water per day. This water is treated ... |
Chickamauga Lake | ... e area has experienced increased residential development particularly along | , an impoundment of the Tennessee River, partly due to an influx of retire ... |
Lake Erie | ... ville, and the county name comes from its location on the southern shore of | |
Lake Hume | ... Z.e.Wildlife sanctuary), Bowna and Table Top to the north, and Wirlinga and | village to the east. Howlong (20 km west) and Jindera (16 km north) are th ... |
Patoka Lake | | is located along the county's eastern borders with both Crawford and Orang ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... t volcanic warming after the explosive volcanic eruptions of El Chichón and | , little temperature trend has been observed since 1995 |
Lake Toba | ... d the region with fertile land and beautiful sceneries, for instance around | . It also contains deposits of coal and gold. The volcanic activity stems ... |
Lake Michigan | Ludington is a harbor town located on | at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River. Many people come to Ludington ye ... |
Skiatook Lake | ... Fourth of July celebration with concerts, The Parade, food and fireworks on | ; a Bluegrass Festival; a fine art & quilt show in October; various fishin ... |
Windermere Lake | ... n BC. For its first , the Columbia flows northwest along the trench through | and the town of Invermere, a region known in BC as the Columbia Valley, th ... |
Storsjön | ... the population live in the rather densely populated region surrounding lake | , commonly called Storsjöbygden, "the Storsjö district/countryside" |
Seneca Lake | The village is south of the south end of | |
Lake Michigan | ... na, which was founded in 1889. The city is located on the southern shore of | . It is roughly 16 miles from the Chicago Loop and just short of two miles ... |
Lake Ontario | The west border of the town is | |
Caspian Sea | ... was at this time stricken by a severe illness. Finally, at Gorgan, near the | , Ibn Sina met with a friend, who bought a dwelling near his own house in ... |
Lake Hume | | is situated on the Murray River upstream of Albury. The Hume Dam (colloqui ... |
Red Sea | Pliny says that Topazos is a legendary island in the | and the mineral "topaz" was first mined there. The word topaz might be rel ... |
Lake Tohopekaliga | ... nded the end of its line from Sanford down to Kissimmee, making the town on | a transportation hub for Central Florida. On February 12, 1885, the Florid ... |
Great Salt Lake | ... the edge of the Great Basin, bordering on the closed drainage basins of the | and Sevier River in central Utah, and other closed basins in southern Utah ... |
Taos Pueblo | Located in a tributary valley off the Rio Grande, | is the most northern of the New Mexico pueblos. For nearly a millennium, t ... |
Aral Sea | ... ts of much of the interior of Asia, and drains into the Caspian Sea and the | . Other endorheic regions include the Great Basin in the United States, mu ... |
Lake Kivu | ... hasa, further up the Congo river; Kalemie, on Lake Tanganyika; and Goma, on | |
Lake Hartwell | ... ter skiing, and sailing as well as hydroelectric power. The largest lake is | , built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1955 and 1963. Lake Ke ... |
Caspian region | One variation from the | of Gilan is called asali halva (honey halva). It is different from other t ... |
Lake Lucerne | ... rouillenboot 80 PBRs, operated by Motorboat Company 10, patrol Lake Geneva, | , Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore and Lake Constance |
Canadarago Lake | Otsego Lake forms most of the eastern boundary, and | forms part of the western boundary |
Red Sea | ... áziοs) or Τοπάζιον (Τοpáziοn), the ancient name of St. John's Island in the | which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone (now believed to ... |
Big Reed Pond | ... onting 10% down). Benson also got clear title to the Montaukett property at | buying it from tribesmen for $10 each and one case one of the tribesmen ho ... |
Lake Michigan | ... n Water Agency (CLCJAWA) located in Lake Bluff. CLCJAWA purifies water from | |
Robbins Pond | ... ugh Bridgewater, branching off to the Satucket River and Poor Meadow Brook. | , the largest body of water in the town, is located in the southeastern co ... |
Lake Baikal | ... the opportunity, the Japanese army planned to occupy Siberia as far west as | . To do so, Japan had to negotiate an agreement with China allowing the tr ... |
Salton Sea | Bono was a champion of the | in southeastern California, where a park was named in his honor. The 2005 ... |
Lake Tanganyika | ... ar the coast; the capital Kinshasa, further up the Congo river; Kalemie, on | ; and Goma, on Lake Kivu |
Lake Victoria | ... the source of the Nile River. Speke continued and found the actual source, | . Later David Livingstone passed by the lake. He noted the name "Liemba" f ... |
Lake Geneva | ... ius-class Patrouillenboot 80 PBRs, operated by Motorboat Company 10, patrol | , Lake Lucerne, Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore and Lake Constance |
terminal lake | ... oximately 1.5 million years ago, the Missouri River flowed northward into a | . The Laurentide ice sheet pushed the river southward. Between 15,000 BCE ... |
Caspian Sea | ... an Empire began to move into the area in 1869 with the establishment of the | port of Krasnovodsk, current-day Turkmenbashy. After the suppression of Bu ... |
Laguna de Bay | ... est by the city of Bacoor, Cavite; by the city of San Pedro, Laguna; and by | to the east, the largest lake in the country. It is classified as a Highly ... |
Skiatook Lake | ... ennis courts, a nine-hole golf course, a driving range, shooting range, and | . There are numerous little leagues (football, baseball, softball, soccer) ... |
Lake Fitri | ... 359 and 1383, seven mais reigned, but Bulala invaders (from the area around | to the east) killed five of them. This proliferation of mais resulted in n ... |
Lake Winnipesaukee | ... her as director of an athletic camp for boys, Camp Alton. It was located on | in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The camp closed in 1992 |
Lake Huron | ... , and Canada's 31st largest island. The island separates the larger part of | to its south and west from Georgian Bay to its east and the North Channel ... |
Lake Michigan | ... drianus D. Godthard. Father Van den Broek’s group, held up by an ice jam on | , arrived on June 10, 1848. The emigrants discovered not plowed fields and ... |
Salton Sea | ... se of small closed basins in the Mojave Desert, the largest of which is the | drainage north of the Colorado River Delta. On the south, the watersheds o ... |
Caspian Sea | ... ), Afghanistan, and Iran on the south; the Gobi Desert on the east; and the | on the west. It has been referenced in many Turkic and Persian sagas and i ... |
Onondaga Lake | ... salty brine springs around the southern end of "Salt Lake", known today as | . The 1788 Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), and the subsequent designation o ... |
Sevier Lake | ... f Kashe Bats and Wah Goots. The Pahvant band ranged the deserts surrounding | . With the intrusion of whites into this area, Kanosh struggled to insure ... |
Turkish Lakes Region | ... ue approximately contemporaneously with the Lycian League. Cibyra ruled the | . It was called Cibyra Megale, "Greater Cibyra," to distinguish it from an ... |
Lake Berryessa | ... ento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is near | . It is noted as the one-time residence of cartoonist R. Crumb and former ... |
Lake Washington | ... ed the land, creating a drumlin field of hundreds of aligned drumlin hills. | and Lake Sammamish (which are ribbon lakes), Hood Canal, and the main Puge ... |
Lake Solitude | ... cirques, and there are more than 100 scattered throughout the high country. | , located at an elevation of , is in a cirque at the head of the North For ... |
Biscayne Bay | ... n 1894–95 to form part of the Florida East Coast Canal from Jacksonville to | with a minimum depth of 5 feet (1.5 m) and a minimum width of 50 feet (15. ... |
Buada Lagoon | ... venile ibija fish, acclimatised them to fresh water, and raised them in the | , providing an additional and more reliable source of food. The other loca ... |
Dead Sea | ... arth's surface, starting from the lowest point on the earth's surface – the | – was by Phil and Pauline Sanderson in 2006 |
Lake Chad | ... n belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south. | , after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the ... |
Aral Sea | ... century. By the tenth century, the Oghuz had expanded west and north of the | and into the steppe of present-day Kazakhstan, absorbing not only Iranians ... |
Lake Superior | ... ational Park, Poland with Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana; or the | parks of Canada and the U.S.; Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario, and Picture ... |
Lake Constance | ... is located at 432 m (1417 ft) above sea level, about 16 km (10 mi) south of | . Hohenems extends for 5.5 km (3.4 mi) from north to south and 8.2 km (5.1 ... |
Lake Weyba | ... ne Coasts's northern area of urban development and extends southwards, past | to Coolum. The 4,000 hectare park is divided into four sections; Headland ... |
Lake Pukaki | ... s to the area nearby is usually by Mt Cook Road, along the western shore of | . A small airfield is also nearby. Aoraki / Mount Cook will be the startin ... |
Khanka Lake | ... , while the northern border forms part of the Amur valley. Xingkai Lake (or | ) is found on the border with Russia's Primorsky Krai |
Lake Victoria | ... lates (related to, but not the same as, the Nile perch that has devastated | cichlids). Almost all (98%) of the Tanganyikan cichlid species are endemic ... |
Finger Lakes | The city stands at the northeast corner of the | Region. The city has many neighborhoods which were originally various vill ... |
Lake Maury | ... ' Museum beginning in 1932. They created a natural park and the community's | in the process. A major feature of Newport News, the Mariners' Museum has ... |
Christina Lake | ... y distributed in the lower Columbia (Arrow Lakes), lower Kootenay, Kettle ( | ), and throughout the Okanagan system |
African Great Lakes | ... t, the watershed of the Okavango River (Kalahari Basin), highlands near the | , the interiors of Australia and the Arabian Peninsula, and parts in Mexic ... |
Blue Lake | ... nk, is the highest lake on the Australian mainland. Lake Albina, Club Lake, | , and Hedley Tarn also have glacial origins |
Kenai Lake | ... ted at (60.418833, -149.355340), near the confluence of the Trail River and | |
Taylorsville Lake | ... s. Its county seat is Taylorsville. The county was named for Spier Spencer. | , located primarily within Spencer County, serves as a major economic reso ... |
Lake Baikal | ... es of the early Middle Ages, which lived in present-day Mongolia and around | in present-day southern Siberia. Known as the Nine Oghuz, this confederati ... |
Lake Bonneville | G.K. Gilbert himself first described this type of delta on | in 1885. Elsewhere, similar structures can be found e.g. at the mouths of ... |
Lake Constance | To the south of the Swabian Alb the plateau of Upper Swabia stretches to | and eastwards across the Iller into Bavaria. Between the Alb and the Black ... |
Lake Nockamixon | ... ater. It is drained by the Tohickon Creek eastward into the Delaware River. | forms much of its SE border. Its villages include Applebachsville, Haycock ... |
Phelps Lake | ... Two Ocean Lakes. South of Jackson Lake, Leigh, Jenny, Bradley, Taggart and | s can be found near the entrances to the canyons which lead into the Teton ... |
Lake Winnipegosis | ... p of three large lakes, the other two being Lake Winnipeg (the largest) and | , which are found on the floor of the prehistoric Glacial Lake Agassiz. Th ... |
Lake Tahoe | ... ace (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States on the north shore of | . It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statist ... |
Onondaga Lake | ... lands of the natives were distributed soon after. In 1788, the lands around | were transferred from the Onondaga Nation to local salt producers with the ... |
Lake Victoria | ... the construction, started in 1895, of a railway from Mombasa to Kisumu, on | , completed in 1901. This was to be the first piece of the Uganda Railway. ... |
Fishing Lakes | ... e Qu'Appelle Valley with Last Mountain and Buffalo Pound Lakes and the four | of Pasqua, Echo, Mission and Katepwa; slightly farther east are Round and ... |
Utah Lake | ... receive its water directly from the Uintas, rather it flows from freshwater | , which itself is fed primarily by the ; the Provo River does originate in ... |
Vänern | ... completion of the southern Göta Canal, begun 22 years earlier, to link Lake | to the sea at Söderköping 180 miles to the east. Though his ultra-conserva ... |
Lerna | ... ly bottomless pool on the coast of the Argolid near the prehistoric site of | . He was guided by Prosymnus or Polymnus, who requested, as his reward, to ... |
Bay Lake | ... which, of it is land and of it (25.48%) is water. The township encompasses | as well as several smaller lakes |
Onondaga Lake | ... dustry complex owned by Allied Signal in Syracuse, the result of which made | the most polluted in the nation |
Lagos Lagoon | ... separated by creeks, such as Lagos Island, fringing the southwest mouth of | whilst protected from the Atlantic Ocean by long sand spits such as Bar Be ... |
Kenosee Lake | ... and Crooked Lakes, also in the Qu'Appelle Valley, and to the southeast the | cottage country |
Mjøsa | ... ad passing around a waterfall". People from the districts around the lake ( | ) who were sailing down the river Vorma, and people from Romerike sailing ... |
Lake Victoria | ... suppress Maconco's revolt. The smaller kingdoms along the western shore of | were also attached to Burundi |
Lerna | ... ter were located at Eleusis (in Sicily), Hermion (in Crete, Megara, Celeae, | , Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas, Iasos, Pergamon, Seli ... |
Lake Silvaplana | ... this idea occurred to him by a "pyramidal block of stone" on the shores of | in the Upper Engadine, a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6,000 ... |
Okanagan Lake | ... r structures can be found e.g. at the mouths of several creeks flowing into | in British Columbia and forming prominent peninsulas at Naramata , Summerl ... |
Lake Helen Blazes | ... Beach, south of Melbourne, and similar Paleo-Indian artifacts were found at | , southwest of Melbourne |
Lake Baikal | ... rgest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after | in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake. The lake is di ... |
Crater Lake | ... Upper and Lower Table Rock lava formations and nearby Mount McLoughlin and | , which is the remains of Mount Mazama. In the late spring/early summer th ... |
Taos Pueblo | The | , that borders the town of Taos on its north side, has been occupied for n ... |
Lake Ainslie | ... t-water fjord at the heart of the island, and freshwater features including | , the Margaree River system, and the Mira River. Innumerable smaller river ... |
Lake Michigan | Hobart residents drive 15 minutes west-northwest to visit casino boats on | and 15 minutes northeast to visit the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and ... |
Lake Washington | ... wn is owned by the Western Academy of Beaux Arts, thus reserving use of the | beach for residents and their guests only |
Ringsjön | ... century. The castle is situated in a scenic location in a cape in the lake | ; the zoological garden is situated just north of the town of Höör |
Lake Van | The modern city is located on the plain extending from the | , at a distance of 5 kilometers from the lake shore |
Lake Michigan | ... the 2000 census. The township is irregularly shaped, following the shore of | from Crystal Lake north to Leelanau County. A portion of the Sleeping Bear ... |
Lake Wairarapa | ... are now common on larger coastal or inland lakes, especially Rotorua Lakes, | and Lake Ellesmere, and the Chatham Islands. Black Swans have also natural ... |
Etang Saumâtre | ... en established, Ovando founded a settlement not far from the coast (west of | ), ironically named Santa Maria de la Paz Verdadera, which would be abando ... |
Jenny | ... Lodge lies Emma Matilda and Two Ocean Lakes. South of Jackson Lake, Leigh, | , Bradley, Taggart and Phelps Lakes can be found near the entrances to the ... |
Lake Ellesmere | ... arger coastal or inland lakes, especially Rotorua Lakes, Lake Wairarapa and | , and the Chatham Islands. Black Swans have also naturally flown to New Ze ... |
Red Sea | ... ct of cutting a navigable canal from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the | . Necho's Canal was the earliest precursor of the Suez Canal |
Vättern | Roxen is a medium-sized lake in south central Sweden, east of lake | , part of the waterpath Motala ström and the Göta Canal. South of lake Rox ... |
Genovesa (Tower) Island | ... ere the waved albatross nests. Some of the birds have attempted to breed on | , but unsuccessfully. Española's steep cliffs serve as the perfect runways ... |
Kinbasket Lake | ... egion known in BC as the Columbia Valley, then northwest to Golden and into | . Rounding the northern end of the Selkirk Mountains, the river turns shar ... |
Quabbin Reservoir | ... achusetts, and Prescott, Massachusetts were depopulated to make way for the | |
Lake Bracciano | ... is to be drawn is uncertain; probably as far west as the Monti Sabatini and | in the north and southward from there. The Romans placed wealthy villas in ... |
Lake Coeur d'Alene | Harrison was incorporated in 1899 and was once the largest city on | |
Wenham Lake | ... ple as far away as London, where hotels in the 1850's advertised: "We serve | Ice." Artificial refrigeration and a fire that destroyed the ice house in ... |
Lake Huron | ... ay, a canal connecting Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and then Georgian Bay on | |
Anthony Lakes | ... ing, and camping, all of which attract vacationers. Attractions include the | (and its ski area), Minam River, Mount Emily, Blue Mountains, Umatilla Nat ... |
Lake Cootapatamba | ... s, roche moutonnées and other glacial features can all be seen in the area. | , which was formed by an ice spilling from Mount Kosciuszko's southern fla ... |
Grays Lake | In 1840, Massachusetts-born William F. Gray settled along the then unnamed | . Other farmers trickled into the area in 1840s. Gray later moved to Wauke ... |
Lake Lugano | ... 0 PBRs, operated by Motorboat Company 10, patrol Lake Geneva, Lake Lucerne, | , Lake Maggiore and Lake Constance |
Geitsjøen | Lakes in the municipality include | and Hettefjorden |
Bras d'Or Lake | Cape Breton Island's hydrological features include the | system, a salt-water fjord at the heart of the island, and freshwater feat ... |
Tulare Lake | ... lowlands of the Central Valley are prone to flooding, especially in the old | , Buena Vista Lake, and Kern Lake beds. The Kings, Kaweah, Tule and Kern r ... |
Lake Michigan | ... The town's boundaries encompass part of the ancient Calumet shore lines of | |
Red Sea | ... e narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the | for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed; however, most sch ... |
Lake Michigan | ... s located at (41.551457, -87.501431), at a point on an ancient shoreline of | (known as the Calumet Shoreline) which is today Ridge Road. This ridge run ... |
Hettefjorden | Lakes in the municipality include Geitsjøen and | |
Loch Etive | ... d fishing and living in beautiful places; one place associated with them is | . But the furious, humiliated Conchobar tracked them down |
Mount Rainier | ... d Tukullum or Nahcullum (in the language of the unidentified "Koma tribe"). | , called "Tacoma", effectively means "larger than Koma (Kulshan)" |
Taos Pueblo | ... number of organizations that support and promote the work of artists on the | and in the Taos area |
Lake Erie | It sits at the tip of the Marblehead Peninsula, which divides | proper from Sandusky Bay. In the summer, it is a popular vacation area bec ... |
Two Ocean Lake | ... d almost consequently. East of the Jackson Lake Lodge lies Emma Matilda and | s. South of Jackson Lake, Leigh, Jenny, Bradley, Taggart and Phelps Lakes ... |
Lake Maggiore | ... ted by Motorboat Company 10, patrol Lake Geneva, Lake Lucerne, Lake Lugano, | and Lake Constance |
Great Bear Lake | ... that "The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" while on | during one of his Arctic expeditions. In 1843 a British Army officer in Ki ... |
Lake Huron | Manitoulin Island is a Canadian lake island in | , in the province of Ontario. It is the largest island in a freshwater lak ... |
Lake Okeechobee | ... oth Orange and Brevard Counties. Osceola County reached all the way down to | until 1917 when Okeechobee County was formed |
Gulf of Suez | ... g Operation Bulmus 6 - the assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt, in the | (jointly with Sayeret Matkal) |
Jølstravatn | ... continental Europe, the Jostedalsbreen as well as a clear green lake named | . The trout caught in Jølstravatn are renowned throughout Norway and beyon ... |
Finger Lakes | ... ey and is twelve miles south of Geneva, New York. Dresden is located in the | Region of New York |
Lake Michigan | ... d 0.1 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (2.02%) is water. The city is located on | at the mouth of the Galien River. This forms a natural harbor, which is pa ... |
Caspian Sea | ... erved in the chronicle. In 913 and 944, the Rus' plundered the Arabs in the | during the Caspian expeditions of the Rus', but it's not clear whether Igo ... |
Lake Michigan | Whiting is home to five parks. Whiting Park, located on the | shoreline, is the most well known. It is a popular picnic spot for residen ... |
Mälaren | ... tle far-fetched that wide waters relates to Lake Vänern in Västergötland or | . The weather in weather-geats, and sea-geats marks a people living at a w ... |
Ringsjön | ... agricultural areas Höör Municipality also has several forests and the lake | . Ringsjön is the second largest lake in Skåne County and covers some 40 k ... |
Lake Constance | ... ompany 10, patrol Lake Geneva, Lake Lucerne, Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore and | |
Lake Victoria Nyanza | ... th in Arebo; as well as by the Nama Hottentots of South West Africa; in the | region; by the Tswana in Portuguese East Africa; among the Ilso and Igbo p ... |
Folsom Lake | ... this dam also created one of the most popular lakes in Northern California, | . The dam is located on the southwest corner of the lake. The lake is an e ... |
Arabian Sea | ... Afghan control from Meshed to Kashmir and Delhi, from the Amu Darya to the | . Next to the Ottoman Empire, the Durrani was the greatest Muslim Empire i ... |
Red Sea | ... he previous king had died in winter, when the Aksumites could not cross the | and appoint another king. Ma'adkarib Ya'fur's long title puts its truthful ... |
Great Lakes region | ... en led to frontier conflicts. Many Native American peoples—primarily in the | —had a long and close relationship with France, and were dismayed to find ... |
Finger Lakes | ... by Seneca Lake, is the border of Seneca County, New York. Starkey is in the | Region of New York |
Lake Benmore | ... fishing. The nearby Ahuriri River is a noted fly-fishing river and adjacent | and Lake Ohau are popular with boaters, as well as fly casters and other a ... |
Onondaga Lake | ... natives were distributed by treaties soon after. In 1788, the lands around | were transferred from the Onondaga Nation to local salt producers |
Onondaga Lake | Galeville is north of | and borders Ley Creek, which flows into the lake. Interstate 81 passes thr ... |
Lake Van | ... Van is connected with Tatvan, which is 96 km away on the opposite shore of | , by a train ferry that helps to avoid the necessity to build a 250 km rai ... |
Grand Bay | ... including pulpwood and naval stores, such as turpentine and rosin. Part of | , a swamp is located in Lowndes County |
Angle Lake | Angle Lake Park, a park at | , has a barbecue area, a boat launch, a fishing pier, playground equipment ... |
Red Sea | ... ity with the Italians, which apparently gave them control over Eritrea, the | coast to the northeast of Ethiopia, in return for recognition of Menelik's ... |
Lake Nockamixon | ... chuylkill River, an area in the northeast portion drains via Threemile Run, | , and the Tohickon Creek eastward to the Delaware River. The township's vi ... |
Lake Michigan-Huron | ... rologically Michigan and Huron are the same body of water (sometimes called | ), but are geographically distinct. Counted together, it is the largest bo ... |
Lake Simcoe | ... er is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, a canal connecting Lake Ontario to | and then Georgian Bay on Lake Huron |
Lake Chelan | ... Moses traded the Columbia Basin land for a reservation that stretched from | north to the Canadian border. The government later traded again for what i ... |
Castle Lake | ... eams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, | and Shasta Lake |
Lac Saint-Jean | ... Hull, along with various other regions within Canada, such as the Saguenay, | , and Île Sainte-Hélène, had Prisoner-of-war camps. Hull's prison was simp ... |
Lake Rabun | ... ly was two springs on nearby Buzzard Roost Mountain, but today Clayton uses | as its water supply |
San Cristóbal Island | ... airports which receive flights from the continent; the other is located on | . Private planes flying to Galápagos must fly to Baltra, as it is the only ... |
Geist Reservoir | ... in the city, particularly along the shores of the White River, Fall Creek, | , and Eagle Creek Reservoir, and especially on the city's northeast and no ... |
Gulf of Suez | ... diterranean ports of Rumana and Ras Beyron, Ras Masala and Ras Sudar on the | , and Sharm el-Sheikh. Egyptian naval frogmen also raided the oil installa ... |
Great Pond | ... he hill was leveled in later years to make room for the ice industry at the | |
Great Salt Lake | ... shed of the Jordan River north of the Traverse Mountains). In addition, the | is partially within the northwestern section of the county. The county is ... |
Lake Winder | ... Indian River. Additional waterways include Lake Washington, Lake Poinsett, | , Sawgrass Lake, the St. Johns River, and the Banana River |
Müritz lakeland | ... the district there are several lakes constituting the northern edge of the | |
Lhamo La-tso | ... on states that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, | , promised the First Dalai Lama in one of his visions "...that she would p ... |
Lake Ohau | ... by Ahuriri River is a noted fly-fishing river and adjacent Lake Benmore and | are popular with boaters, as well as fly casters and other anglers |
Badin Lake | ... th Carolina. Local and nearby attractions include Uwharrie National Forest, | , Lake Tillery, North Carolina Zoo, and Pinehurst |
Vistula Lagoon | ... rn shore of the Baltic Sea. The Curonian Lagoon (to the north-east) and the | (on the southwest) demarcate the peninsula. Prior to 1945 it formed an imp ... |
Coralville Lake | ... ille Dam along the Iowa River four miles (6 km) north of the city, creating | . Except for the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Iowa flood of 2008, the ... |
Folsom Lake | ... ke. The lake is an estimated from Granite Bay to the most southern point of | |
Lake Ontario | ... marily to carry coal from Athens, Pennsylvania through Auburn to wharves on | at Fair Haven |
Biscayne Bay | ... , LeJeune Road (West 42nd Avenue) south of U.S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by | south of Battersea Road. On the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deeri ... |
Banana River | ... on, Lake Poinsett, Lake Winder, Sawgrass Lake, the St. Johns River, and the | |
Djupvatnet | ... ll is located along the Geirangerfjord. The mountain Dalsnibba and the lake | are located along Norwegian national road 63 in the southern part of the m ... |
Lake Chad | ... and dunes, with flat to rolling plains in the south and hills in the north. | is at the south-east corner of the country and is shared between Niger, Ni ... |
Lake Turkana | ... id Australopithecus anamensis following a series of fossil discoveries near | in 1965, 1987 and 1994, and is around 4.1 million years old. One of the mo ... |
Lake Magadi | It is also mined from some alkaline lakes such as | in Kenya by dredging. Hot saline springs continuously replenish salt in th ... |
Mundaring Weir | ... , Canning River and Helena River. The latter two have dams (Canning Dam and | ) which provide a sizeable part of the potable water requirements for Pert ... |
Chiemsee | ... many lakes. To the east of the district is the largest of these lakes, the | . The main rivers in the district are the Inn and the Mangfall, which meet ... |
Zorkul | This left the border east of | lake in the Wakhan. Territory in this area was claimed by Russia, Afghanis ... |
Utah Lake | ... along the base of the mountains as they travelled from their winter home at | to their summer fishing grounds at Bear Lake |
Caspian | ... raeli proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the | ". He introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which added to Victoria's titl ... |
Lake Tillery | ... Local and nearby attractions include Uwharrie National Forest, Badin Lake, | , North Carolina Zoo, and Pinehurst |
Laguna de Bay | ... ated at 14°40' N 121°3 E, Metro Manila is situated on an isthmus bounded by | to the south-east and Manila Bay to the west, opening to the South China S ... |
Great Pond | ... m. Hugh Peters, the minister in Salem, preached to a group on a hill by the | around 1638, most probably to encourage settlement. The earliest land gran ... |
Lake Lucerne | By 1869, Wagner was living at Tribschen on | , sponsored by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. He returned to Siegfried, and, r ... |
Lake Taupo | Taupo is a town on the shore of | in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Ta ... |
Crowdy reservoir | ... been constructed on the moor; these are Colliford Lake, Siblyback Lake and | s which supply water for a large part of the county's population. Various ... |
Lake Kivu | ... along with small amounts of gold and sapphires. Production of methane from | began in 1983, but to date has been used only by the Bralirwa Brewery |
Lake Tanganyika | ... Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and | . It gained independence from the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth Realm o ... |
Lake Taupo | Taupo is located at the outlet of | , New Zealand's largest lake, in the northeast part of the lake where it d ... |
Paw Paw Lake | ... oth Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding | and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. Th ... |
Thief Valley Reservoir | ... rness), Catherine Creek State Park, Hilgard Junction State Recreation Area, | , Cove Hot Springs Pool, the Hot Lake Hotel (first built in the 1860s due ... |
Lake Michigan | ... identified by Native Americans as the halfway point on a foot trail between | and the Mississippi River |
Lake Michigan | ... population was 10,042 at the 2000 census. The township is on the shores of | in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the Ci ... |
Caspian Sea | ... rts from the city of Kzyzl Su (Krasnovodsk) (nowadays Turkmenbashi) (on the | ), travels southeast along the Karakum Desert, through Ashgabat, continues ... |
Keuka Lake | ... uka Lake Outlet (known early as "Crooked Lake Outlet"), a stream connecting | with Seneca Lake, flows past the south side of the village. At first the s ... |
Red Sea | ... uated near the head of Annesley Bay (also known as the Bay of Zula), on the | coast. Four kilometers away is the archeological site of Adulis, which was ... |
Banks Lake | ... d water up from the Columbia to fill the formerly dry Grand Coulee, forming | . By 1935, the intended height of the dam was increased from a range betwe ... |
Lake Superior | ... l was part of the route used by the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois to reach | . The first known European to settle on the island was Father Joseph Ponce ... |
Ladybower | In the north of the county, three large reservoirs, Howden, Derwent and | , were built during the early part of the 20th century to supply the rapid ... |
Lake Cerrillos | ... ncha and El Tuque beaches. There is also a beach at Caja de Muertos Island. | is located within the limits of the municipality, as will be the future la ... |
Honeoye Lake | ... llage is located on the falls of Honeoye Creek. It is the primary outlet of | |
Loch Doon | ... nemies. Sir Christopher Seton (Bruce's brother in law) had been captured at | and was hurried to Dumfries to be tried for treason in general and more sp ... |
Salton Sea | He championed the restoration of the | , bringing the giant lake's plight to national attention. Speaker of the H ... |
Red Sea | ... ut men of his crew suffering stingray wounds while standing and wading into | shallows to load or unload smuggled wares: he wrote that to "save the man' ... |
Folsom Lake | ... which, of it is land and of it (9.69%) is water, primarily accounted for by | |
Lake Huron | ... narrow margin over Port Huron) as the largest city by population on or near | , much smaller than the largest cities on the other four Great Lakes: (Chi ... |
Lake Hume | ... d Yackandandah, boating and fishing on the many rivers and lakes, including | , the forests and mountains of the Great Dividing Range and slightly furth ... |
Moses Lake | | , on which the city lies, is made up of three main arms over 18 miles (29 ... |
Chautauqua Lake | ... he New York-Pennsylvania border, is the westernmost of New York's counties. | is located in the center of the county, and Lake Erie is its northern bord ... |
Cedar Lake | ... River and its environs. Forts were established on both the Saskatchewan and | . It also was part of the route of the fur trade to Hudson Bay |
Lake Michigan | ... ck Land Co. They were attempting to build a canal to connect Lake Erie with | . This effort ultimately failed |
Searles Lake | ... per district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at | , California in the United States; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and M ... |
Dead Sea | ... alinity of the world ocean is 3.5% (35 parts per thousand) and 33.7% in the | . The ionic composition is similar to seawater, much more so than the Dead ... |
Pamlico Sound | In 1906 the Raleigh and | Railroad Company decided to bring the railroad through the Whitley and Hor ... |
Lake Erie | ... S. state of Michigan. It is located from the Ohio border along the coast of | . It was established in the early 1900s and incorporated as a city in 1963 ... |
Lake Poinsett | ... It includes the Indian River. Additional waterways include Lake Washington, | , Lake Winder, Sawgrass Lake, the St. Johns River, and the Banana River |
Lake Baikal | ... parts from the Trans-Siberian line at Taishet several hundred miles west of | and passes the lake at its northernmost extremity. It crosses the Amur Riv ... |
Lake Baikal | ... , making it the largest lake entirely within one country by surface area ( | , in Russia, is larger by water volume), and the fifth largest lake in the ... |
Dead Sea | ... rejordain, including the castles Kerak and Montreal to the southeast of the | . These fortresses controlled the trade routes between Egypt and Damascus ... |
Lake Erie | ... tar and Flat Rock Land Co. They were attempting to build a canal to connect | with Lake Michigan. This effort ultimately failed |
Onondaga Lake | ... settled in Onondaga Hollow south of the present city center at the head of | , which was then marshy |
Paw Paw Lake | ... touches the northeast corner of the township before bending eastward around | . The eastern boundary of the township passes through the center of the la ... |
Lake Erie | ... ork's counties. Chautauqua Lake is located in the center of the county, and | is its northern border |
Caspian Sea | ... alize its economic potential arising from the rich natural resources of the | . The Turkish cultural close ties with Azerbaijan is summarized by the slo ... |