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Lake Vermont Coal Mine
Lake Vermont Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin near Dysart, majority-owned by Jellinbah Group and operated by Thiess, with its first shipment in February 2009.
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake and Earth's second largest freshwater body, lies between Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania and feeds the White Nile. Key facts: 42 million dependents, Nalubaale Dam outflow control, Nile perch introduction, water hyacinth, eutrophication.
Lake Victoria Basin
Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa drainage basin of Lake Victoria (68,800 km² lake, 193,000+ km² catchment) shared by Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi; home to 42+ million people, endemic haplochromine cichlids, Nile perch fishery, and EAC-managed transboundary governance.
Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)
Lake View Cemetery (Seattle), founded 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery and renamed Lake View in 1890, is a 40-acre non-profit cemetery on Capitol Hill holding Seattle pioneers, Princess Angeline, and Bruce and Brandon Lee.
Lake Volta
Lake Volta, also called Volta Lake, is the reservoir of Ghana's Akosombo Dam and the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area, covering 8,502 square kilometers.
Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok (Vostok Subglacial Lake), East Antarctica's largest subglacial lake: over 250 km long, 14,000 km2, beneath about 4 km of ice at about -3 degrees C; drilled into by Russia in 2012; microbes found in accreted ice.
Lake Vyrnwy
Lake Vyrnwy (Llyn Efyrnwy) is a reservoir in Powys, Wales, built 1881-1888 to supply Liverpool, the first large masonry dam in Britain, now an RSPB nature reserve and National Nature Reserve.
Lake Wairarapa
Lake Wairarapa, also part of Wairarapa Moana, is a shallow 7,850 ha freshwater lake in the southern North Island of New Zealand, the Wellington Region's largest lake, supertrophic, protected by a 1989 water conservation order and a 2020 Ramsar designation.
Lake Wakatipu
Lake Wakatipu (Whakatipu) is a 290 km² zigzag glacial lake in Otago, New Zealand, up to about 400 m deep, drained by the Kawarau River, oligotrophic, protected by the 1997 Kawarau Water Conservation Order, home of the 1912 TSS Earnslaw.
Lake Warden system
Lake Warden system, a Ramsar-listed (7 June 1990) complex of saline lakes and marshes near Esperance, Western Australia, covering about 1,999 ha, important for hooded plover, chestnut teal and 25 migratory waterbird species.
Lake Washington
Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake in King County, Washington, forming Seattle's eastern border; the second-largest natural lake in Washington State, it was lowered 9 feet in 1916.
Lake Washington Ship Canal
The Lake Washington Ship Canal is an eight-mile waterway in Seattle connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union to Puget Sound, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1911 to 1917.
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Winnipeg is a large shallow lake in Manitoba, Canada, about 23,750 km², a remnant of glacial Lake Agassiz draining via the Nelson River to Hudson Bay; known for its commercial walleye fishery, hydroelectric regulation since 1976, and severe eutrophication from Red River phosphorus.
Lake Winnipesaukee
Lake Winnipesaukee is New Hampshire's largest lake, a glacial, dam-raised 44,600-acre water body with about 250 islands, 240 miles of shoreline, an oligotrophic main body, and a major tourism economy.
Lake Wivenhoe
Lake Wivenhoe is the reservoir formed by Wivenhoe Dam, completed in 1984, on the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia; it supplies more than half the region's drinking water.
Lake Wobegon
Lake Wobegon is Garrison Keillor's fictional Minnesota town from A Prairie Home Companion, where all the children are above average; also namesake of the Lake Wobegon testing effect.
Lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow is heavy snow produced when cold, dry air passes over a warmer unfrozen lake and forms narrow snow bands over the downwind shore, especially near the Great Lakes.
Lakefield National Park
Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park (CYPAL), formerly Lakefield National Park, is a 544,000 ha jointly managed Aboriginal-owned national park on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, known for the Normanby, Morehead and North Kennedy rivers, vast wetlands, and estuarine crocodile conservation.
lakeFS
lakeFS is an open-source data version control system, "Git for data," by Treeverse (founded 2020). It adds zero-copy branching, commits, merges, and rollback to S3, Azure, and GCS data lakes, licensed under BSL 1.1.
Lakehouse architecture
Lakehouse architecture is a data management design that adds database features like ACID transactions to low-cost cloud object storage in open formats, serving analytics, machine learning, and streaming.
Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms (paper)
CIDR 2021 paper by Armbrust, Ghodsi, Xin, and Zaharia defining the lakehouse: warehouse features such as ACID transactions and SQL performance over open Parquet data lakes via a transactional metadata layer like Delta Lake.
LaKeith Stanfield
LaKeith Stanfield (born 1991, San Bernardino, California) is an American actor and rapper, also recording as Moors. Known for Darius in Atlanta, Get Out, Sorry to Bother You, Crown Heights, and his Oscar-nominated William O'Neal in Judas and the Black Messiah.
Lakekeeper
Lakekeeper is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Apache Iceberg REST Catalog written in Rust by Vakamo, providing access control via OpenFGA/Cedar, vended credentials for S3, ADLS, GCS, audit, and a Lakekeeper+ commercial edition.
Lakeland Flying Tigers
Lakeland Flying Tigers, Detroit Tigers Single-A Florida State League affiliate in Lakeland, Florida, playing at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium since 1966; renamed from Lakeland Tigers in 2007 to honor the WWII AVG pilots and the Lakeland School of Aeronautics.
Lakeland Terrier
Lakeland Terrier, formerly Patterdale or Fell Terrier: a small English working terrier from Cumberland's Lake District, bred to hunt foxes; under 15 inches, about 17 pounds, wiry low-shedding coat; KC recognition 1921, AKC 1934; a vulnerable native breed.
Lakeland, Florida
Lakeland, Florida: largest city in Polk County on the I-4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando; incorporated January 1, 1885 by Abraham Munn; 124,990 residents (2024 est.); 38 named lakes; Publix headquarters; Frank Lloyd Wright's largest single-site campus; Detroit Tigers spring training.
Lakemba, New South Wales
Lakemba, NSW: southwestern Sydney suburb in City of Canterbury-Bankstown, 15 km from CBD, on Bankstown line; majority-Muslim (61.2%), Haldon Street Ramadan night markets, Metro conversion from 2024.
Laken Riley Act
Laken Riley Act, Public Law 119-1 (S. 5), US federal immigration law signed January 29, 2025, mandating DHS detention of noncitizens charged with or arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, or related offenses, and granting state attorneys general standing to sue federal officials.
Lakenheath
Lakenheath is a large Suffolk fen-edge village near the Norfolk border, recorded in Domesday 1086 under Ely Abbey, home to RAF Lakenheath, the largest USAF combat-aircraft base in Europe, and the RSPB Lakenheath Fen wetland reserve.
Lakera
Lakera is a Swiss-American AI security company founded in Zurich in 2021, best known for the Gandalf prompt-injection game and the Lakera Guard guardrail product for screening LLM traffic.