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IJsselmeer (landform)
The IJsselmeer is a large artificial freshwater lake in the central Netherlands, created in 1932 when the Afsluitdijk closed the Zuiderzee, making it the country's largest freshwater lake.
Iliamna (lake)
Iliamna Lake (Dena'ina: Nila Vena; Central Yup'ik: Nanvarpak) is a large freshwater lake in southwestern Alaska and the state's largest, known for world-important sockeye salmon habitat and rare freshwater harbor seals.
Inle Lake
Inle Lake (Inlay Lake), Southern Shan State, Myanmar: shallow 884 m mountain lake, country's second-largest, home of Intha floating gardens (Yechan), Lawpita hydropower source, Ramsar and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve site facing siltation and shrinking area.
Issyk-Kul
Issyk-Kul (Ысык-Көл, "warm lake") is a deep, endorheic saline lake at 1,606 m in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan: 6,236 km², 668 m deep, never freezing, Silk Road heritage, declining water level.
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.
Kasba
Kasba Lake, a 1,341 km² glacial freshwater lake in Canada's Northwest Territories extending into Nunavut, headwater of the Kazan River, named from the Dene word for ptarmigan.
Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre
Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre is Australia's largest terminal lake, a 9,700 km² usually dry salt pan 15 m below sea level in South Australia, dual named for the Arabana people in 2013 and filled rarely by monsoon floods.
Khanka
Khanka (Ozero Khanka; Xingkai Hu, 興凱湖) is a large shallow transboundary freshwater lake on the China-Russia border, largest in Northeast Asia, about 4,380 km², Ramsar site 112, draining via the Song'acha to the Ussuri.
Khantayskoye
Khantayskoye (Хантайское озеро, Kutaramo) is a deep freshwater lake on the southern Taimyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia: 822 km², 420 m maximum depth, third deepest in Russia, part of the Ust-Khantayskoye Reservoir.
Khar-Us
Khar-Us (Khar-Us Nuur, Хар-Ус нуур) is Mongolia's second largest freshwater lake, in the Great Lakes Depression, Khovd Province; shallow, glacier-fed by the Khovd River, a Ramsar site, national park, and 2024 UNESCO biosphere reserve, distinct from a smaller same-named lake in Uvs Province.
Khövsgöl Nuur
Khövsgöl Nuur (Khuvsgul, Hovsgol), Mongolia's deepest lake, a 383 km³ alpine lake in the Baikal Rift Zone holding ~70% of Mongolia's freshwater, draining via the Eg River to Lake Baikal.
Khyargas Nuur
Khyargas Nuur (Хяргас нуур), a large brackish endorheic lake in Mongolia's Great Lakes Depression, terminal sink of Altai-Khangai meltwater; second-largest brackish lake, with dated paleoshorelines to +129 m (MIS 5c).
Kolleru Lake
Kolleru Lake is one of India's largest freshwater lakes, a Ramsar wetland in Andhra Pradesh that acts as a flood-balancing reservoir between the Godavari and Krishna deltas.
Kootenay (lake)
Kootenay Lake (Kootenai, Ktunaxa origin), a 104-km-long natural fjord-like lake in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, within Ktunaxa and Sinixt territory; regulated since 1938 by the IJC's Corra Linn Dam order, area 389 km², max depth 154 m.
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.
Kroner Lake
Kroner Lake is a small round lake west of Whalers Bay on Deception Island, Antarctica, named by whalers and turned into a lagoon by the 1969 eruption.
Kulundinskoe
Kulundinskoe (Кулундинское озеро, Lake Kulunda) is a large drainless hyperhaline lake on the Kulunda Plain, Altai Krai, Russia; area about 720–728 km², salinity 40–131 g/l, mirabilite reserves, and a commercial Artemia brine shrimp cyst fishery.
Kumpupintil
Kumpupintil Lake, formerly Lake Disappointment, is a large endorheic salt lake in Western Australia's Little Sandy Desert on Martu land, officially renamed in November 2020 and home of the Ngayurnangalku beings.
Kwania
Lake Kwania (Kwania, Lake) is a shallow 508 km² freshwater lake in northern Uganda, part of the Kyoga Lakes complex, draining via a 20-km channel to the Victoria Nile; a key inland fishery facing flooding, fish deaths, and illegal-fishing enforcement.
Kyoga
Lake Kyoga, shallow lake in central Uganda on the White Nile, fed by the Victoria Nile from Lake Victoria, draining to Lake Albert; mean depth 3 m, area 2,000 km2, major Ugandan fishery.
Labaz
Labaz (Лабаз, Ozero Labaz) is a 470 km² shallow freshwater lake in the North Siberian Lowland, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at 72°N 99°E, draining via the Kegerdi River into the Khatanga basin; a relic of an ice-dammed pre-Labaz lake and a permafrost paleoclimate research site.
Lac Fitri
Lac Fitri (Lake Fitri) is a permanent freshwater Sahelian lake in Batha region, central Chad, fed by the seasonal Batha river; a Ramsar site and biosphere reserve (195,000 ha) supporting fishing, flood-recession farming, and dry-season transhumant grazing.
Lacs des Loups Marins
Lacs des Loups Marins is a system of connected lakes in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, home to the world's only freshwater subspecies of the harbor seal.
Lady Bird Lake
Lady Bird Lake, formerly Town Lake, is a five-mile reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, formed in 1960 by Longhorn Dam as a power plant cooling pond and renamed for Lady Bird Johnson in 2007.
Lady Melville Lake
Lady Melville Lake, an officially named lake in Nunavut, Canada, at 69°8′N 92°30′W on NTS sheet 057C01; name formalized 13 March 1947 and distinct from Labrador's Lake Melville.
Lago Ypoá
Lago Ypoá, a shallow lake and wetland complex in Paraguay's Paraguari, Central, and Neembucu departments; Ramsar site no. 728 (1995, 100,000 ha) and Reserva de Recursos Manejados (119,006 ha), with floating vegetation mats, threatened species, and mostly private land tenure.
Lagoa do Erepecur
Lagoa do Erepecur (Lake Erepecu, Lagoa do Erepecuru) is a 38-km, 109-km² lake in Pará, Brazil, parallel to the lower Rio Trombetas, inside REBIO Trombetas with quilombola communities on its shores.
Lagoa Mirim
Lagoa Mirim (Mirim Lagoon), a 180-km-long freshwater coastal lagoon on the Brazil-Uruguay border in Rio Grande do Sul, draining via the São Gonçalo Channel to Lagoa dos Patos; basin about 62,250 km², rice irrigation, 1977 dam-lock, 1977 Lagoa Mirim Treaty.
Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru
Lagos Poopó y Uru Uru, Bolivian Ramsar site BO1181RIS designated 11 July 2002, protects two brackish Altiplano lakes in Oruro department covering 967,607 ha, home to some 120,000 flamingos; Lake Poopó has since largely dried.
Lahontan
Lahontan: Pleistocene Lake Lahontan of northwestern Nevada, its remnant closed basin and freshwater ecoregion, California's Lahontan water-quality Region 6, the Lahontan cutthroat trout, and a French commune.