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Siljan
Siljan, lake in Dalarna, Sweden, seventh largest by area (293 km², max depth 134 m), largest lake in the Siljan Ring, Europe's largest meteorite impact structure, regulated since the 1920s, outlet to Dalälven at Leksand.
Skadar
Lake Skadar (Shkodra, Skadarsko jezero) is the largest lake in the Balkans, on the Montenegro-Albania border: shallow karst cryptodepression, 44 km long, Morača-fed, national park since 1983, Ramsar site, declining water levels.
Sørvágsvatn
Sørvágsvatn, also called Leitisvatn or Vatnið, is the largest lake of the Faroe Islands (3.4 km²) on Vágar, famous for the Trælanípa-cliff optical illusion that makes it appear to float above the ocean despite sitting only about 30 m above sea level, draining via Bøsdalafossur.
Storsjön
Storsjön is a large, regulated lake in Jämtland, Sweden. It is the fifth largest by surface area and acts as a reservoir for the Indalsälven hydropower system.
Topozero
Topozero (Топозеро; Finnish: Topasjärvi) is a large freshwater lake in northern Karelia, Russia, in the Kovda River basin and part of the Kumskoye Reservoir since 1966.
Torneträsk
Torneträsk (Duortnosjávri), Sweden's sixth largest lake and largest unregulated lake, a 331 km2 subarctic mountain lake in Norrbotten near Abisko; outlet Tarrakoski starts the protected Torneälven; max depth 168 m; ice records since 1873.
Uddjaure
Uddjaure (Uddjaur), large regulated lake in Arjeplog, Lapland, Sweden, in the Skellefteälven system; about 250 km², 420 m elevation, max depth 25 m; with Storavan a key hydropower reservoir.
Ullswater
Ullswater, Cumbrian lake in England's Lake District National Park; second largest after Windermere at 8.9 km2, 14.5 km long, dog-leg shaped, up to 62.5 m deep, drained by the River Eamont, served by Ullswater Steamers.
Vänern
Vänern is Sweden's largest lake and Europe's third largest, about 5,450–5,650 km², 153 km³, mean depth 27 m, draining via Göta älv; regulated since 1937, with landlocked Gullspång salmon and a large freshwater archipelago.
Virihaure
Virihaure (Lule Sami Vijrehávrre, Virijaure), a large unregulated mountain lake in Padjelanta National Park, Lapland, Sweden; 108 to 112 km², 138 m deep, source lake of the Stora Luleälven draining to Vastenjaure.
Võrtsjärv
Võrtsjärv, Estonia's largest entirely domestic lake (270 km², mean depth 2.8 m), a shallow turbid eutrophic, cyanobacteria-dominated lake draining via the Emajõgi into Lake Peipsi, with ice cover about 135 days a year.
Windermere
Windermere (Lake Windermere) is England's largest natural lake, a glacial twin-basin lake in the Lake District, Cumbria; 14.8 km², 64 m deep, famed for scenery, Arctic charr, and ongoing sewage and nutrient pollution disputes.