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Lake Manasarovar
Lake Manasarovar (Mapham Yutso), a sacred freshwater lake at about 4,585 m on the Tibetan Plateau at the foot of Mount Kailash, holy to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Bon, destination of the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra pilgrimage.
Lake Maracaibo
Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo), Venezuela's large brackish estuary and South America's largest lake, heart of the country's oil industry since 1914, now heavily affected by oil spills and eutrophication.
Lake Maria State Park
Lake Maria State Park is a 1,600-acre Minnesota state park in Wright County near Monticello, established 1963, preserving a remnant of the Big Woods forest, with hike-in tent camping, camper cabins, and over 200 bird species.
Lake Marmara
Lake Marmara, anciently the Gygaean Lake, is a broad, shallow lake in the Gediz valley of Manisa Province, western Turkey, north of Sardis, the capital of ancient Lydia.
Lake Martin
Lake Martin is a reservoir on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, created in 1926 by Alabama Power's Martin Dam and one of the state's principal recreational lakes.
Lake McDonald Lodge
Lake McDonald Lodge, originally the Lewis Glacier Hotel, is a 1913-14 Swiss chalet style National Historic Landmark lodge on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, now operated by Xanterra with 82 guest rooms.
Lake McRee
Lake McRee, American football tight end from Austin, Texas; USC (2021-25, 97 catches, 1,154 yards, 7 TDs, All-Big Ten Second Team 2025); signed 2026 as Pittsburgh Steelers undrafted free agent, No. 81, no NFL debut yet.
Lake Mead
Lake Mead is the largest reservoir by volume in the United States, created by Hoover Dam on the Colorado River near Las Vegas and supplying water and hydropower to major southwestern cities.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a 1.5-million-acre unit of the National Park System in Nevada and Arizona, the nation's first and largest national recreation area.
Lake Meredith
Lake Meredith is a reservoir on the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle, formed by Sanford Dam near Amarillo to supply municipal water to eleven West Texas cities.
Lake Merritt
Lake Merritt is a tidal lagoon in downtown Oakland, California, dammed in 1869 and named for Mayor Samuel Merritt; designated in 1870 as North America's first wildlife refuge, it remains a tidal estuary with restricted channel flow and ongoing water quality restoration.
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan, one of the five North American Great Lakes and the only one entirely within the United States, borders Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan; 307 miles long, 925 feet deep, with a 99-year water retention time.
Lake Michigan–Huron
Lake Michigan–Huron: combined waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, joined by the Straits of Mackinac; hydrologically one lake and technically the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area.
Lake Mills (Washington)
Lake Mills was a reservoir on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, Washington, impounded by the Glines Canyon Dam and drained in autumn 2012.
Lake Mogotoyevo
Lake Mogotoyevo (Озеро Моготоево), also Ozero Bol'shoye Mogotoyevo, is a coastal lagoon lake in Yakutia, Russian Far East, at 72.03°N 149.13°E on the East Siberian Sea coast, with a short-lived weather station and rapidly eroding shores.
Lake Mohave
Lake Mohave is a reservoir on the Colorado River, formed by Davis Dam in 1953 on the Arizona–Nevada border and part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lake Monoun disaster
The Lake Monoun disaster was a limnic eruption, a sudden release of carbon dioxide from a crater lake in western Cameroon, that killed 37 people in 1984.
Lake monster
Lake monsters are large unknown animals reported in lakes, such as Nessie of Loch Ness, Ogopogo, and Champ; science attributes sightings to hoaxes, misidentification, and refraction, and a 2018 eDNA survey found no monster DNA.
Lake Mungo (film)
Lake Mungo (2008) is Joel Anderson's Australian mockumentary horror film about the drowned teenager Alice Palmer and her haunted family, a found-footage cult classic with a 92% Tomatometer score, restored in 4K by Umbrella in 2025.
Lake Murray (Oklahoma)
Lake Murray, Oklahoma: man-made reservoir near Ardmore in Carter and Love counties, formed by damming Fourche Maline and Anadarche creeks; center of Oklahoma's first and largest state park, built by New Deal agencies.
Lake Nakuwa Wetland System
Lake Nakuwa Wetland System, Ramsar site 1635 in eastern Uganda's Kyoga basin, is a permanent papyrus swamp with satellite lakes; Uganda's largest Ramsar site at 417,254 ha, designated 2006.
Lake Nasser
Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir on the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, created by the Aswan High Dam and named after Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Lake Natron
Lake Natron is a hyperalkaline soda lake in Tanzania's Gregory Rift near Ol Doinyo Lengai, a Ramsar site since 2001 and the world's most important lesser flamingo breeding site, threatened by recurring soda ash mining proposals.
Lake Natron Basin
Lake Natron Basin, a 224,781-ha Ramsar site (no. 1080) in Tanzania's Gregory Rift designated 4 July 2001, is the only regular East African breeding site of the Lesser Flamingo, hosting about 75% of the global population, and is threatened by recurring soda ash mining and Ewaso Ngiro dam proposals.
Lake Ngardok Nature Reserve
Lake Ngardok Nature Reserve (Melekeok State, Babeldaob, Palau) protects Lake Ngardok, Micronesia's largest natural freshwater lake. Established 1997, Ramsar site since 2002, first Palau PAN site in 2008, with crocodiles, endemic birds, and a ForestGEO forest plot.
Lake Niassa and its Coastal Zone
Lake Niassa and its Coastal Zone (Lago Niassa e Zona Costeira) is Mozambique's Ramsar Site no. 1964, designated 2011, 1,363,700 ha in Niassa Province, protecting the Mozambican part of Africa's third largest lake with about 90% endemic fish species.
Lake Nicaragua
Lake Nicaragua (Lago Cocibolca), Nicaragua's largest lake and Central America's largest at 8,144 km², drains via the Río San Juan to the Caribbean, hosts Atlantic bull sharks, and was the focus of the canceled HKND canal project.
Lake Norman
Lake Norman is North Carolina's largest man-made lake, a reservoir on the Catawba River near Charlotte created by Duke Power's Cowans Ford Dam between 1959 and 1963.
Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake in northwestern Cameroon on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, suffered a limnic eruption on 21 August 1986 that asphyxiated more than 1,700 people; degassing pipes installed since 2001 now remove magmatic CO2.
Lake Nyos disaster
The Lake Nyos disaster: a limnic eruption on 21 August 1986 in which Cameroon's Lake Nyos released about 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide, asphyxiating roughly 1,700 people; preceded by Lake Monoun 1984 and mitigated by degassing pipes.