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Lake George (New South Wales)
Lake George (Weereewa) is a shallow endorheic lake on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, 25 km long, with no outflow, a 200-year water-level record, and salinity from fresh to above seawater.
Lake Gore
Lake Gore: near-permanent saline lake 34 km west of Esperance, Western Australia, core of Ramsar site 1049 (4,017 ha, listed 2001), a major Australian shelduck moulting site and drought refuge meeting Ramsar Criteria 4 and 6.
Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu is a reservoir on the Colorado River behind Parker Dam, on the Arizona–California border, supplying the Colorado River and Central Arizona Project aqueducts.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Lake Havasu City, Arizona: Mohave County city (pop. ~59,000) on Lake Havasu, founded by Robert P. McCulloch, home of the relocated 1831 London Bridge; tourism-driven desert river city with Colorado River water entitlements.
Lake Hillier
Lake Hillier is a hypersaline pink lake on Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia, named in 1803; its color comes mainly from Salinibacter ruber, and it lost its pink hue after 2022 rainfall.
Lake House
Lake House is the name of several houses, most prominently a Grade I listed Elizabethan house of 1578 at Wilsford cum Lake, Wiltshire, now owned by Sting and Trudie Styler.
Lake Huron
Lake Huron, second-largest of the North American Great Lakes by area and third by volume, borders Michigan and Ontario; 23,000 sq mi, 3,540 km³, longest Great Lakes shoreline, assessed Good and Unchanging.
Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu
Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu, FEOW ecoregion 627, a Palearctic large-lakes ecoregion in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan covering endorheic Lake Issyk Kul and the upper Chu River, with highly endemic, predator-free native fish fauna now threatened by introduced species.
Lake Itasca
Lake Itasca, Minnesota glacial lake regarded as the Mississippi River's source, identified by Henry Schoolcraft with guide Ozawindib in 1832, verified by Nicollet in 1836, within Itasca State Park (1891).
Lake Jackson, Texas
Lake Jackson, Texas, the "City of Enchantment," is a Brazoria County city founded in 1941 as a Dow Chemical company town, designed by Alden B. Dow, incorporated in 1944, population 28,177 in 2020.
Lake Kaņieris
Lake Kaņieris (Kaņiera ezers) is a shallow lagoon-origin lake in Ķemeri National Park, Latvia; 1,122 ha, 13th largest in Latvia, Ramsar site since 1995, rich in birds and pike.
Lake Kanieris and Kemeri bog
Lake Kanieris and Kemeri bog, Ramsar Site no. 739 in Latvia (designated 1995, extended 2020), a 361.8 km² wetland within Kemeri National Park: shallow lagoon Lake Kanieris with 14 islands and about 237 bird species, and the Great Kemeri raised bog.
Lake Karachay
Lake Karachay, also called Karachai, was a small lake at the Mayak nuclear site in the southern Urals, Russia, that held liquid radioactive waste from 1951.
Lake Kariba
Lake Kariba, a man-made reservoir on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, created by the Kariba Dam (1956-1959); largest reservoir by volume at about 185 cubic km, 280 km long, 2,130 MW hydropower, major fisheries and tourism, hit by 2024 drought.
Lake Kesis works
The Lake Kesis works (Keşiş Gölü) are an Urartian dam-and-reservoir complex on Mount Erek east of Van, Turkey, built by King Rusa III around 650 BC.
Lake Kivu
Lake Kivu, a deep meromictic rift lake on the Rwanda–DRC border at ~1,462 m elevation, holds ~60 billion m³ of dissolved methane and vast CO₂ in stratified deep waters, posing a limnic eruption hazard while fueling Rwandan methane-to-power plants KivuWatt (26 MW) and SPLK (56 MW).
Lake Kutubu
Lake Kutubu, a Ramsar site (no. 961, 1998) in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands, is PNG's second largest lake, famed for 10 of 14 endemic fish species, now threatened by oil development, turbidity loss, and invasive tilapia.
Lake Ladoga (Ладожское озеро)
Lake Ladoga (Ладожское озеро), largest lake in Europe at about 18,135 km², in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Drains via the Neva to the Gulf of Finland; fed mainly by the Svir, Volkhov, and Vuoksi rivers; oligotrophic until the 1960s, later eutrophied.
Lake Lanao
Lake Lanao: large ancient tectonic-volcanic lake in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines; second largest in the country; feeds Agus River hydropower (70% of Mindanao electricity); famed for 18 endemic cyprinids, mostly now extinct.
Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier, officially Lake Sidney Lanier, is a 38,425-acre reservoir on the Chattahoochee River formed by Buford Dam in 1957 and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Lake Lanoto'o
Lake Lanoto'o, Samoa's largest permanent freshwater lake, a volcanic crater lake in Upolu's central highlands and the core of Samoa's first Ramsar Site (Lake Lanoto'o National Park), with endangered endemic birds and introduced goldfish.
Lake Letes
Lake Letes (Lake Letas), a 1,971 ha caldera lake on Gaua island, Vanuatu; Ramsar Site no. 2524, designated 15 September 2023 as Vanuatu's first Wetland of International Importance, largest Pacific Islands lake outside New Guinea.
Lake Livingston
Lake Livingston is a reservoir on the Trinity River in East Texas, built and operated by the Trinity River Authority to supply water to Houston.
Lake Louise, Alberta
Lake Louise, Alberta: glacial lake in Banff National Park, 55 km west of Banff, turquoise from rock flour; discovered 1882 by Tom Wilson, renamed 1884 for Princess Louise; CPR resort from 1890; heavily managed for shuttle-based tourism.
Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)
Lake Macquarie (Awaba) is a large coastal saltwater lake on the Hunter coast of New South Wales, Australia, just south of Newcastle and about 90 km north of Sydney.
Lake Macquarie Shire
Lake Macquarie Shire, proclaimed 16 May 1906 in NSW, became a municipality in 1977 and the City of Lake Macquarie in 1984; Hunter region's largest LGA by population, 213,845 at the 2021 Census, centred on a 110 km2 coastal lake.
Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore, Verbano), large pre-Alpine lake on the Italy-Switzerland border; second largest and second deepest in Italy, 372 m max depth, Ticino inflow/outflow, Miorina dam regulation since 1943.
Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa) is Africa's third largest rift valley lake, 31,000 km² and over 700 m deep, famed for its endemic cichlid fishes and the Lake Malawi National Park World Heritage site.
Lake Malice
Lake Malice are a Brighton, England alternative metal duo formed around 2022 by vocalist Alice Guala and guitarist Blake Cornwall, fusing metal with hyperpop and electronic music.
Lake Managua
Lake Managua (Lago Xolotlán), a large shallow endorheic lake in western Nicaragua near the capital, area about 1,016 km², mean depth 7.8 m; heavily polluted by sewage, industry, and mercury, with occasional overflow via the Río Tipitapa.