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Lake Biwa - Japan
Lake Biwa (琵琶湖), Japan's largest lake, is a tectonic freshwater lake in Shiga Prefecture, about 674 km², 103.58 m deep, roughly 4 million years old, supplying drinking water to about 14 million people in the Kansai region.
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 Bonneville
Lake Bonneville, the largest Pleistocene lake of western North America, occupied northwestern Utah and southern Idaho about 30,000 to 13,000 years ago; its Bonneville flood through Red Rock Pass and remnant Great Salt Lake distinguish it.
Lake Burullus
Lake Burullus (بحيرة البرلس), Egypt's second-largest coastal lagoon in the Nile Delta, a hypereutrophic Ramsar wetland fed by agricultural drains, connected to the Mediterranean through the narrow El-Boughaz inlet, and under rehabilitation since 2018.
Lake Chad
Lake Chad is a shallow endorheic lake in the Sahel bordering Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. Once about 22,000–25,000 km², it lost 90% of its area by the 1990s, then stabilized and recently refilled.
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is a 120-mile-long, 400-foot-deep lake between New York's Adirondacks and Vermont's Green Mountains, draining north through Quebec's Richelieu River to the St. Lawrence; named for Samuel de Champlain, it supplies drinking water to about 200,000 people.
Lake channel
A lake channel is a part of a lake deep enough for navigation between islands or shoals, or any named channel associated with a lake.
Lake Chaubunagungamaug
Lake Chaubunagungamaug, known locally as Webster Lake, is a 1,297-acre lake in Webster, Massachusetts, near the Connecticut border, famous for its 45-letter alternate name coined in 1921.
Lake Chelan
Lake Chelan is a 50.4-mile glacial lake in Chelan County, Washington, the state's deepest and largest natural lake at 1,486 ft, with two basins, Lucerne and Wapato, split by the Narrows, draining via the four-mile Chelan River.
Lake Colhué Huapí
Lake Colhué Huapí (Lago Colhué Huapí), shallow Patagonian lake in Chubut, Argentina, paired with Musters Lake in the Senguer basin; fluctuated 105–797 km², dried out by 2020, reemerged 2024 at 190 km².
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 Ebinur
Lake Ebinur (Aibi Lake), Xinjiang's largest saline lake, is a shallow hypersaline terminal lake near Kazakhstan fed by the Bortala and Jinghe rivers, shrinking from about 1,200 km² in 1950 to under 500 km² through irrigation and dams, exposing dust-storm-generating salt playas.
Lake ecosystem
Lake ecosystem: the interacting physical, chemical, and biological system of an inland standing water body and its watershed. Covers thermal stratification, phosphorus limitation, trophic cascades, climate-driven mixing changes, regime shifts, and ecosystem services.
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora, also called Te Waihora, is a shallow, brackish coastal lake-lagoon in Canterbury, New Zealand, separated from the sea by Kaitorete Spit.
Lake Engure
Lake Engure (Engures ezers), Latvia's largest lagoon lake, a shallow Littorina Sea remnant on the Gulf of Riga; Ramsar site no. 738 since 1995, core of Lake Engure Nature Park, famed for breeding waterbirds, charophyte habitats, and reed-cutting restoration.
Lake Erie
Lake Erie, the shallowest and smallest-by-volume Great Lake (average depth 19 m, volume 484 cubic km), lies between Ontario and Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York, supplies drinking water to about 11 million people, and faces persistent phosphorus-driven harmful algal blooms.
Lake Foxen
Lake Foxen (Foxen), Swedish lake in western Värmland near Årjäng, northern part of the Stora Le system; drains to Lelång at Lennartsfors via Dalsland Canal; oligotrophic, limed, known for burbot, pike, perch.
Lake freighter
Lake freighters (lakers) are bulk cargo ships operating on the Great Lakes, distinct from ocean-going salties. Key facts: 71.3 million tons U.S. cargo in 2025, 63-vessel U.S. fleet, Seawaymax size limits, self-unloaders versus straight-deckers, 1906 J. Pierpont Morgan first modern freighter.
Lake Galilee (Queensland)
Lake Galilee is a 29,659-hectare intermittent, internally draining lake in the Desert Uplands of central Queensland, part of the Lake Eyre Basin, a DIWA nationally important wetland and Key Biodiversity Area supporting up to 10,000 pelicans.
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 George (lake), New York
Lake George, called Lac du Saint-Sacrement until 1755, is a 32-mile-long lake in the southern Adirondacks of New York, among the cleanest large lakes in the United States.
Lake George (New South Wales)
Lake George (Weereewa) is a shallow endorheic lake on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, 25 km long, with no outflow, a 200-year water-level record, and salinity from fresh to above seawater.
Lake Gore
Lake Gore: near-permanent saline lake 34 km west of Esperance, Western Australia, core of Ramsar site 1049 (4,017 ha, listed 2001), a major Australian shelduck moulting site and drought refuge meeting Ramsar Criteria 4 and 6.
Lake Hillier
Lake Hillier is a hypersaline pink lake on Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia, named in 1803; its color comes mainly from Salinibacter ruber, and it lost its pink hue after 2022 rainfall.
Lake Huron
Lake Huron, second-largest of the North American Great Lakes by area and third by volume, borders Michigan and Ontario; 23,000 sq mi, 3,540 km³, longest Great Lakes shoreline, assessed Good and Unchanging.
Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu
Lake Issyk Kul - Upper Chu, FEOW ecoregion 627, a Palearctic large-lakes ecoregion in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan covering endorheic Lake Issyk Kul and the upper Chu River, with highly endemic, predator-free native fish fauna now threatened by introduced species.
Lake Itasca
Lake Itasca, Minnesota glacial lake regarded as the Mississippi River's source, identified by Henry Schoolcraft with guide Ozawindib in 1832, verified by Nicollet in 1836, within Itasca State Park (1891).