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Lake of fire
The lake of fire, or lake of fire and brimstone, is the image of final punishment in the book of Revelation, equated with the second death.
Lake of the Ozarks
Lake of the Ozarks is a 58,500-acre reservoir in central Missouri created by Bagnell Dam on the Osage River, built 1929-1931 by Union Electric; also a major recreation and tourism destination.
Lake of the Woods
Lake of the Woods: large transboundary lake in Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz, draining north to Hudson Bay; known for cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, binational water-level boards, and walleye fisheries.
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Okeechobee, "big water" in the Seminole language, is Florida's largest lake: 730 square miles, averaging 9 feet deep, ringed by the Herbert Hoover Dike, central to Everglades water supply, flood control, and fisheries.
Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga
Lake Onega - Lake Ladoga is a freshwater ecoregion, number 409 in the FEOW catalog, covering Europe's two largest lakes and their connecting waters in northwestern Russia and Finland.
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario (Huron oniatarí:io, 'lake of shining waters') is the lowest and easternmost Great Lake, 19,009 km², draining via the St. Lawrence River; its outflow has been regulated since 1960 under IJC Plan 2014.
Lake Ontario naming dispute
Lake Ontario naming dispute: the 2026 US executive order (EO 14420) renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" in federal usage amid a trade dispute with Canada; Google and Apple adopted it, MapQuest refused, and Canada kept Lake Ontario.
Lake Opeta Wetland System
Lake Opeta Wetland System, a Ugandan Ramsar site (no. 1636, 2006, 68,912 ha) and Important Bird Area in Nakapiripirit, Sironko, Katakwi, and Kumi districts; refuge for Fox's weaver, shoebill, and fish extinct in Lakes Victoria and Kyoga.
Lake Oromeeh Biosphere Reserve
Lake Oromeeh Biosphere Reserve, the UNESCO designation (1976) of Lake Urmia (دریاچه ارومیه) in northwestern Iran: a hypersaline lake, Ramsar site, and national park, home to Artemia urmiana, now severely dried.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a reservoir on the Feather River in Butte County, California, formed by Oroville Dam in 1967 as the principal storage facility of the California State Water Project.
Lake Oswego, Oregon
Lake Oswego, Oregon: suburban city eight miles southwest of Portland, founded 1850 as Oswego, Oregon's first iron town, renamed 1960; centered on privately managed Oswego Lake with contested public access.
Lake Pedder
Lake Pedder is an impoundment in south-west Tasmania, created in 1972 by damming the Serpentine and Huon rivers, flooding a smaller natural lake of the same name.
Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur, Iberia Parish, Louisiana: brackish lake on the Jefferson Island salt dome, site of the 1980 Texaco drilling accident that drained the freshwater lake into the Diamond Crystal salt mine, creating a whirlpool, a reversed canal, and a 200-foot-deep saltwater lake with no fatalities.
Lake Pend Oreille
Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho's largest lake (92,764 acres, over 1,150 ft deep, 5th deepest in the US), a glacial basin tied to Ice Age Floods, regulated by Albeni Falls Dam, with a major kokanee, trout, and waterfowl fishery.
Lake Pinaroo
Lake Pinaroo (Fort Grey Basin), Ramsar site 799, is a 719 ha ephemeral terminal lake in Sturt National Park, far north-west NSW, listed 17 March 1996; it fills only when Frome Swamp overflows and can hold water up to six years.
Lake Piru
Lake Piru is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, created in 1955 behind Santa Felicia Dam on Piru Creek and operated by United Water Conservation District.
Lake Piso
Lake Piso (also Lake Pisu, Fisherman's Lake): Liberia's largest natural lagoon, in Grand Cape Mount County near Robertsport; first Ramsar site (no. 1306, 2003, 76,091 ha), Multiple Use Reserve, chimpanzees, mangroves, Vai homeland.
Lake Placid (film)
Lake Placid is a 1999 American horror-comedy film directed by Steve Miner and written by David E. Kelley, in which a giant crocodile is found in a Maine lake.
Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex
Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex (Olympic Jumping Complex), ski jumping venue in Lake Placid, NY, run by ORDA; jumps date to 1920, served the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, and after a 2021 renovation are the only North American hills homologated for year-round jumping.
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda is a 2015 Syfy TV movie crossover, the fifth entry in both franchises, directed by A.B. Stone, starring Robert Englund, Yancy Butler, and Corin Nemec.
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid, New York: Adirondack village (2020 pop. 2,205), site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and the Miracle on Ice, home of the Lake Placid Club and ORDA-managed Olympic venues.
Lake Pleasant Regional Park
Lake Pleasant Regional Park is a 23,362-acre Maricopa County park near Morristown, Arizona, also called Waddell Dam reservoir country, centered on the CAP's Lake Pleasant with boating, fishing, camping, and fluctuating 3,000-10,000-acre water surface.
Lake Poets
The Lake Poets, also known as the Lake School, were English Romantic poets of the early 19th century, chiefly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the Lake District.
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain (Okwa-ta, "Wide Water") is a 629-square-mile brackish estuary north of New Orleans, formed about 5,000 years ago by Mississippi delta growth, crossed by the Causeway, and fed by Bonnet Carré Spillway diversions.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is a pair of parallel toll bridges carrying traffic about 24 miles across Lake Pontchartrain between Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana, completed in 1969.
Lake Poopó
Lake Poopó (Lago Poopó) is a shallow saline lake in the Bolivian altiplano, department of Oruro, once Bolivia's second-largest lake, which essentially dried up in December 2015.
Lake Poso
Lake Poso (Danau Poso), ancient tectonic lake in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia; 323.2 km2, ~400 m deep, ultraoligotrophic, home to at least seven endemic fish species, several possibly extinct from invasive fish and habitat degradation.
Lake Powell
Lake Powell, also called Powell Reservoir, is a reservoir on the Colorado River behind Glen Canyon Dam in Utah and Arizona, the second-largest in the United States.
Lake Qarun Protected Area
Lake Qarun Protected Area (محمية قارون), Egypt's Ramsar Site 2040 (2012, 134,042 ha) in Fayoum Governorate, protects a closed saline remnant of Lake Moeris; salinization and pollution have collapsed its fishery.
Lake retention time
Lake retention time (residence time, flushing time) is lake volume divided by inflow or outflow rate, the mean time water spends in a lake; it ranges from days in small impoundments to centuries in Lake Baikal and governs nutrient retention and water quality response.