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Zeta Lake
Zeta Lake: name of two Canadian lakes, one in Alberta (official CGNDB name since 1949, 53.1664 N, 115.7278 W) and one in Nunavut (70.9 N, 106.42 W, elevation 82 m); also a Devonian stratigraphic member.
Zeya
Zeya (Зея): river in Amur Oblast, largest left tributary of the Amur (1,242 km, 232,000 km² basin), and its Zeya Dam, a 1,330 MW buttress-dam hydro plant launched 1975 with the world's first 220 MW diagonal turbines.
Zhaling Lake
Zhaling Lake (Chaling Sea, 'white long lake') is a 4,291 m freshwater tectonic lake in Golog, Qinghai, China, the second largest lake in the Yellow River source area, a Ramsar Site (no. 1442, 64,920 ha) within Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve.
Zhem
Zhem (Emba, Жем) is a 700 km snow-fed river in western Kazakhstan, flowing from the Mugodzhar Mountains toward the Caspian; its 40,400 km2 basin spans Aktobe and Atyrau, and its April 2024 flood inundated Kulsary.
Zubov Bay
Zubov Bay (Spanish: Zubov, bahía; Chilean: Bahía Marcial Mora) is a bay on the east coast of Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica, at 65°42'S 65°52'W, named in 1959 after Soviet sea-ice scientist N.N. Zubov.
Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee, former brackish North Sea bay in the Netherlands, formed by 12th-century floods including the 1170 Allerheiligenvloed; closed by the 32 km Afsluitdijk on 28 May 1932, becoming the freshwater IJsselmeer.