Lakes and standing inland waters

Eutsuk Lake

Eutsuk Lake, a 24,500 ha lake in North Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, central British Columbia, at 860 m elevation near Nechako River headwaters; Carrier-language name; largest road-inaccessible BC lake, famed for large piscivorous rainbow trout.

Eyasi

Lake Eyasi is a shallow soda lake with strongly alkaline water in northern Tanzania, flanked by the Mbulu and Ngorongoro Highlands and known for flamingos, the Hadza people, and Pleistocene fossil sites.

Eyre South

Lake Eyre South (Kati Thanda) is the smaller southern section of Lake Eyre, Australia's largest salt lake, in far northern South Australia. It measures 64 by 24 km, connects to Lake Eyre North via the Goyder Channel, and fills only when the north lake exceeds two metres deep.

Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are eleven narrow glacial lakes in western New York, including Seneca (deepest, about 200 m) and Cayuga; they supply drinking water to 1.5 million people and anchor a major cool-climate wine region.

Flathead Lake

Flathead Lake: largest natural freshwater lake by surface area in the western US outside Alaska, in northwest Montana; 27.3 mi long, 370.7 ft deep, remnant of Glacial Lake Missoula, monitored by FLBS since 1899.

Forggensee

Forggensee is a reservoir in the Lech valley near Füssen in Bavaria, formed by the Roßhaupten dam in 1954 and the largest reservoir in Germany.

Garibaldi Lake

Garibaldi Lake: glacier-fed alpine lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC, north of Squamish, dammed by The Barrier lava dam; 9 km hike from Rubble Creek; reservations required.

Garry

Garry Lake, an official lake name in Nunavut, Canada (65°58′N 100°18′W), monitored by DAHITI satellite altimetry since 2002; also Gary Lake, Nova Scotia, and Garrow Lake, Cornwallis Island.

General Carrera/Buenos Aires

General Carrera Lake (Lago Buenos Aires, originally Chelenko) is a 1,850 km2 glacial-tectonic lake on the Chile-Argentina border, the largest in Chile, draining via the Baker River, home of the Marble Caves.

Georgian Bay

Georgian Bay (Baie Georgienne) is the 15,111 km² northeastern arm of Lake Huron, Ontario, separated by Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula, with a 30,000-island archipelago and oligotrophic, Fair-to-Good rated waters.

Geren Cuo

Geren Cuo (格仁错, Kering Tso, Kyaring Lake) is a 475.9 km2 endorheic lake at 4,650 m in Xainza County, Nagqu, Tibet, part of the Siling Co lake system along the Gyaring Co Fault, a black-necked crane habitat.

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Glacial lake outburst flood

A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is the sudden release of water dammed by glacier ice, moraine, or an ice jam, flooding valleys tens to hundreds of kilometers downstream.

Gods

Gods (Gods Lake, Cree Manitou Sakayigun, "Lake of the Gods") is a large deep lake in northeastern Manitoba, about 550 km northeast of Winnipeg, site of a 1935-1943 gold mine on Elk Island and a remote fly-in trophy fishery.

Goéland

Goéland is French for gull and a common Canadian toponym: Lac au Goéland in Eeyou Istchee Baie-James (251 km², Cree name Kiashk), several other official Quebec lakes, and species names like goéland argenté.

Grand Lake (lake, Canada)

Grand Lake (Labrador) is a 60 km long, 250 m deep fjord lake in Labrador, Canada, fed by the Naskaupi and Beaver Rivers and draining to Lake Melville; distinct from Grand Lake, New Brunswick and other namesakes.

Great Bear Lake

Great Bear Lake (Sahtu), Northwest Territories: largest lake entirely within Canada, 31,153 km2, 446 m deep, Arctic Circle, five arms, Délı̨nę Got'ine, UNESCO biosphere reserve, record-low water levels 2023-2025.

Great Bitter Lake

Great Bitter Lake (al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā) is a 250 km² saltwater lake at the midpoint of Egypt's Suez Canal, formed from a dry salt flat when the canal opened in 1869, serving as the convoy crossing zone and formerly a salinity barrier to Red Sea species.

Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario) are North America's five connected freshwater lakes, the largest fresh surface water system on earth, holding about one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water and supplying over 40 million people.

Great Lakes region

The Great Lakes region is the North American area around Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario and their basin, spanning eight U.S. states and Ontario, holding about 21% of the world's surface fresh water and a $6 trillion economy.

Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake: hypersaline closed-basin lake in northern Utah, remnant of Lake Bonneville; largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, eighth largest worldwide; shrinking since 2021 record lows.

Great Slave Lake

Great Slave Lake: large deep lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada; fifth largest in North America at 27,195 km2, 625 m deep in Christie Bay, outlet of the Mackenzie River, fur-trade hub since 1786.

Gurudongmar Lake

Gurudongmar Lake (Gurudogmar) is a sacred moraine-dammed glacial lake in Mangan district, North Sikkim, India, above 5,100 m near the China border; fed by the Gurudongmar Glacier, a Teesta tributary, revered by Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs, and a high GLOF-risk lake reopened to Indian tourists in 2026.

Gyaring

Gyaring Lake (扎陵湖, Zhaling Lake) is a ~526 km² freshwater lake at ~4,280 m in Madoi County, Qinghai, on the Tibetan Plateau. The Yellow River flows through it eastward into its sister lake Ngoring; OSL dating shows overspill highstands at 14–12 ka and 9 ka.

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.

Hirakud Dam (ହୀରାକୁଦ ବନ୍ଧ)

Hirakud Dam (ହୀରାକୁଦ ବନ୍ଧ), a composite earth, masonry, and concrete dam on the Mahanadi near Sambalpur, Odisha, inaugurated by Nehru in 1957; 25.8 km long with dykes, 743 km² reservoir, 307.5 MW power, irrigation, and delta flood control.

Hirakud Reservoir

Hirakud Reservoir is the lake behind the Hirakud Dam on the Mahanadi River at Sambalpur, Odisha, India; commissioned in 1957, it covers 743 km² and became a Ramsar site in 2021.

Hongze Lake

Hongze Lake (洪泽湖), Jiangsu, China: fourth largest freshwater lake, a shallow impounded lake formed by the 1128 Yellow River capture and Ming-Qing levees; Huai River reservoir and South-to-North Water Diversion eastern-route storage.

Hottah

Hottah usually means Hottah Lake, a large dimictic lake (842.81 km²) on the Camsell River in the Northwest Territories, Canada, with Tłı̨chǫ name origin, 1950s uranium mining, and a commercial trout and whitefish fishery; also a smaller namesake lake in British Columbia and the Hottah terrane.

Hulun

Hulun Lake (呼伦湖), also Dalai Lake, a large shallow lake in Inner Mongolia, China; fifth-largest in China, fed by the Kherlen and Wuershun rivers, with severe 2000s water-level decline and later recovery.