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Lake Austin
Lake Austin, formerly Lake McDonald, is a constant-level Highland Lakes reservoir on the Colorado River in west Austin, Texas, formed by Tom Miller Dam (1939) and serving as a major Austin drinking water source.
Lake Bachar
Lake Bachar (Lake David Bachar, born 1995) is an MLB right-handed reliever for the Pittsburgh Pirates, formerly Marlins; a former college football kicker drafted in 2016 who debuted in 2024 at age 29.
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal is a rift lake in south-east Siberia, Russia, the oldest and deepest lake in the world at about 25 million years and 1,700 m deep.
Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton (Balaton) is Hungary's large shallow freshwater lake, the largest in Central Europe, about 80 km long and 3.7 m deep. Known for 19th-century Hunyady resort origins, the 'communist Riviera' era, eutrophication and recovery, and the 2019 record algal bloom.
Lake Bardawil
Lake Bardawil (بحيرة البردويل), hypersaline coastal lagoon on North Sinai's Mediterranean coast, Egypt; Ramsar site 407 (1988), Montreux Record 1990; ~650 km², ~500,000 migratory birds, major sole, bass, and mullet fishery.
Lake basin
Lake basin: the depression holding a lake and the land draining into it; also called catchment or watershed. Covers origin types (11 forces), watershed-to-lake area ratio, endorheic basins, and datasets like LakeCat.
Lake bed
A lake bed, also written lakebed, is the bottom of a lake, often implying a dry lake; it is where sediment accumulates and fossils are found.
Lake Bell
Lake Bell, born Lake Siegel Bell in 1979, is an American actress, screenwriter, and director known for Boston Legal, In a World..., and voicing Poison Ivy in Harley Quinn.
Lake Berryessa
Lake Berryessa, also known as Berryessa Reservoir, is a federal reservoir in Napa County, California, formed in 1957 when the Bureau of Reclamation completed Monticello Dam on Putah Creek.
Lake Biwa - Japan
Lake Biwa (琵琶湖), Japan's largest lake, is a tectonic freshwater lake in Shiga Prefecture, about 674 km², 103.58 m deep, roughly 4 million years old, supplying drinking water to about 14 million people in the Kansai region.
Lake Bled
Lake Bled (Blejsko jezero) is a glacial lake in Upper Carniola, Slovenia, 2,120 m long and up to 31 m deep, formed about 14,000 years ago, with Bled Island and its Assumption church and Bled Castle above the shore.
Lake Bodom murders
Lake Bodom murders (Bodominjärven surmat): unsolved June 1960 killing of three teenage campers in Espoo, Finland; survivor Nils Gustafsson was charged in 2004 and acquitted in 2005.
Lake Bonneville
Lake Bonneville, the largest Pleistocene lake of western North America, occupied northwestern Utah and southern Idaho about 30,000 to 13,000 years ago; its Bonneville flood through Red Rock Pass and remnant Great Salt Lake distinguish it.
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Lake Buena Vista, a small city in Orange County, Florida, incorporated 1967 as City of Reedy Creek, renamed 1969; about 3 square miles inside Walt Disney World, population 21, governed by a five-member council.
Lake Buir and its surrounding wetlands
Lake Buir and its surrounding wetlands (Буйр нуур), Ramsar site 1377, is a 104,000 ha wetland complex in Dornod, eastern Mongolia, designated in 2004 around Mongolia's fifth largest lake, a key East Asian-Australasian flyway waterbird site.
Lake Burragorang
Lake Burragorang is the reservoir formed behind Warragamba Dam, about 65 kilometers west of Sydney, flooded in 1960 and supplying roughly 80 percent of the city's drinking water.
Lake Burullus
Lake Burullus (بحيرة البرلس), Egypt's second-largest coastal lagoon in the Nile Delta, a hypereutrophic Ramsar wetland fed by agricultural drains, connected to the Mediterranean through the narrow El-Boughaz inlet, and under rehabilitation since 2018.
Lake Cachuma
Lake Cachuma is a reservoir formed by Bradbury Dam on the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara County, California, about 25 miles northwest of Santa Barbara.
Lake Cerknica
Lake Cerknica (Cerkniško jezero) is an intermittent karst lake in southwestern Slovenia, the largest in the country, which floods for up to 8 months a year and is a Ramsar wetland.
Lake Chad
Lake Chad is a shallow endorheic lake in the Sahel bordering Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. Once about 22,000–25,000 km², it lost 90% of its area by the 1990s, then stabilized and recently refilled.
Lake Chad Basin Commission
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (CBLT) is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1964 by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to manage Lake Chad's shared waters, headquartered in N'Djamena.
Lake Chad Basin crisis
The Lake Chad Basin crisis is a long-running humanitarian and security emergency in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, where the Boko Haram insurgency since 2009 has displaced millions.
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is a 120-mile-long, 400-foot-deep lake between New York's Adirondacks and Vermont's Green Mountains, draining north through Quebec's Richelieu River to the St. Lawrence; named for Samuel de Champlain, it supplies drinking water to about 200,000 people.
Lake channel
A lake channel is a part of a lake deep enough for navigation between islands or shoals, or any named channel associated with a lake.
Lake Charles LNG Terminal
Lake Charles LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification terminal near Lake Charles, Louisiana, owned by Energy Transfer, whose export project was suspended in 2025.
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles, Louisiana: parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, sixth-largest Louisiana city (84,872 in 2020), named for settler Charles Sallier, home of McNeese State University, hit by Hurricane Laura in 2020.
Lake Chaubunagungamaug
Lake Chaubunagungamaug, known locally as Webster Lake, is a 1,297-acre lake in Webster, Massachusetts, near the Connecticut border, famous for its 45-letter alternate name coined in 1921.
Lake Chelan
Lake Chelan is a 50.4-mile glacial lake in Chelan County, Washington, the state's deepest and largest natural lake at 1,486 ft, with two basins, Lucerne and Wapato, split by the Narrows, draining via the four-mile Chelan River.
Lake Chilwa Wetland Biosphere Reserve
Lake Chilwa Wetland Biosphere Reserve: Ramsar Site No. 869 (1997) and UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve around Lake Chilwa, Malawi's second-largest, endorheic lake, vital for fisheries, rice, and 1.5 million waterbirds.
Lake City, Florida
Lake City, Florida, formerly Alligator, is the county seat of Columbia County in North Central Florida, near the intersection of Interstates 75 and 10, with a 2020 population of 12,329.