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Beloe
Beloe (Beloye Ozero, White Lake) is the Russian name of many lakes; the largest, in Vologda Oblast, Russia, is a 1,284 km2 shallow lake on the Volga-Baltic Waterway, distinct from smaller namesakes in Belarus, Moscow, and Siberia.
Helvellyn
Helvellyn is a 950 m mountain in England's Lake District and its third highest peak, best known for the arêtes Striding Edge and Swirral Edge above Red Tarn.
Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón, the glacial river lagoon in southeast Iceland, formed around 1935 as the Breiðamerkurjökull outlet of Vatnajökull retreated; Iceland's deepest lake, tidal, iceberg-filled, in Vatnajökull National Park.
Krasnoye
Krasnoye (Красное, "red") is a common Russian toponym. Notable bearers: Lake Krasnoye in Chukotka (458 km², Anadyr River, major obsidian source) and Lake Krasnoye on the Karelian Isthmus (9.13 km²), plus Krasnoye Selo and a Crimean salt lake.
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 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 Como
Lake Como (Lago di Como, Lario) is a glacial Y-shaped lake in Lombardy, Italy: third largest at about 145 km², deepest of the large prealpine lakes at 410 m, regulated by the Consorzio dell'Adda and a major tourist destination.
Lake Constance
Lake Constance, also known as Bodensee, is a large deep pre-Alpine lake shared by Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and the second largest pre-Alpine lake in Europe.
Lake District
The Lake District is a 2,292 sq km mountainous region in North West England, a National Park since 1951 and UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017, known for its lakes, Herdwick sheep farming, and Romantic heritage.
Lake Garda
Lake Garda (Lago di Garda, Benaco) is Italy's largest lake: 369.98 km², 49 km³, 346 m deep, spanning Lombardy, Veneto, and Trentino-Alto Adige, fed by the Sarca and drained by the Mincio.
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), Western Europe's largest lake at 580 km² and 309.7 m deep on the Swiss-French border; glacially carved basin, monomictic, 11-year water renewal, Rhône-fed, monitored by CIPEL.
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 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.
List of lakes of Finland
Lakes of Finland: about 188,000 lakes over five ares (official count 187,888), covering 33,522 km² or 9.9% of the country; largest are Saimaa, Inari, and Päijänne; mean depth about 7 meters.
List of lakes of the Lake District
List of lakes of the Lake District: the 16 major waters of England's largest national park, Cumbria. Windermere (14.8 km²) is largest and longest, Wastwater deepest (74 m); Bassenthwaite Lake is the only one officially named a lake.
List of lochs of Scotland
The lochs of Scotland are its standing waters: over 30,000 freshwater lochs from small lochans to Loch Lomond and Loch Ness, plus fjord-like sea lochs.
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond, a glacial freshwater loch in southern Scotland, is Scotland's largest loch by surface area at 71 km2, has deep northern and shallow southern basins, and anchors Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, Scotland's first national park (2002).
Loch Ness
Loch Ness (Loch Nis) is a large, deep freshwater lake in the Great Glen of the Scottish Highlands, holding more water than any other British lake.
Lochaber
Lochaber is a district of the west Scottish Highlands in the Highland council area, home to Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, marketed as the Outdoor Capital of the UK, with tourism about 30% of GDP and a 2024 National Park nomination.
Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland, is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles at about 383 km2. It drains via the Lower Bann, supplies 40% of NI drinking water, sits in a Paleocene pull-apart basin, and faces recurring blue-green algae blooms.
Mälaren
Mälaren, or Lake Mälaren, is Sweden's third largest lake, west of Stockholm, with over 8,000 islands and UNESCO Viking-Age Birka; it supplies drinking water to about two million people.
Markermeer & IJmeer
Markermeer & IJmeer: shallow freshwater lakes in the central Netherlands, created in 1976 by the 26 km Houtribdijk; IJmeer is the southern part. Natura 2000 and Ramsar site 1245, 68,463 ha, turbid silt bed, Marker Wadden restoration.
Mývatn
Mývatn ("midge lake") is a 37 km² shallow, spring-fed, naturally eutrophic lake in northeastern Iceland, formed about 2,300 years ago, famous for chironomid midges, duck diversity, Ramsar protection, and pseudocraters.
Onega
Onega (Onego, Онежское озеро), Europe's second largest lake, in Karelia, Russia; ~9,720–9,890 km², Svir River outlet to Ladoga, glacial origin, Onega petroglyphs.
Ozero Srednye Kuyto
Ozero Srednye Kuyto (Keski-Kuittijärvi), the largest of Karelia's three Kuyto lakes in the Kem River basin: 275.7 km², 41.8 km long, 34 m deep, reservoir since 1956, with Kalevala on its northern shore.
Pihkva
Pihkva, also called Lake Pskov (Russian: Псковское озеро), is the southernmost, shallowest basin of the Lake Peipsi system, a 708 km² lake on the Estonia–Russia border.
Pyaozero
Pyaozero (Пяозеро; Finnish Pääjärvi) is a large freshwater lake in northern Karelia, Russia, part of the Kumskoe reservoir system on the Kovda River and one of Europe's largest lakes.
Pyhäjärvi (lake, Finland)
Pyhäjärvi (Säkylän Pyhäjärvi) is a 155 km² shallow lake in southwestern Finland, its largest lake, a mesotrophic, highly productive vendace and whitefish fishery under protection since 1995.
Røssvatnet
Røssvatnet (Reevhtse) is a regulated lake in Hattfjelldal and Hemnes, Nordland, Norway; after 1950s damming it is Norway's second largest lake at 219 km² and third largest hydropower reservoir, 2.0 TWh, feeding the Røssåga power stations.
Saimaa
Saimaa (Saimen) is Finland's largest lake and Europe's fourth largest, a 4,400 km² labyrinth of about 14,000 islands in South Karelia and South Savo, home of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal and drained by the Vuoksi River into Lake Ladoga.