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Feya Tarn (Bulgarian: езеро Фея, romanized: ezero Feya, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro ˈfɛjɐ]) is the oval-shaped 65 m long in south–north direction and 60 m wide tarn on eastern Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has a surface area of 0.28 ha and drains northwards into Barclay Bay by way of Eridanus ...
Little Langdale Tarn is a natural tarn within a marshy area of the valley. The area around the tarn is managed by the National Trust and has no public access. It is typical Southern Cumbrian meso-oligotrophic tarn, [35] whilst not at a particularly high altitude itself it has a mean catchment altitude of 520 metres (1,710 ft) [34]
Jordan Pond is an oligotrophic tarn in Acadia National Park near the town of Bar Harbor, Maine. The pond covers 187 acres (76 ha) to a maximum depth of 150 feet (46 m) with a shoreline of 3.6 miles (5.8 km). [4] [3] [5] The pond was formed by the Wisconsin Ice Sheet during the last glacial period. Penobscot Mountain (1194 ft) rises to the west ...
Verdi Lake in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada. The word is derived from the Old Norse word tjörn ("a small mountain lake without tributaries") meaning pond. In parts of Northern England – predominantly Cumberland and Westmorland (where there are 197), [2] but also areas of North Lancashire and North Yorkshire – 'tarn' is widely used as the name for small lakes or ponds, regardless of their ...
Tarn (French pronunciation: or ; Occitan pronunciation:) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the river Tarn , it had a population of 389,844 as of 2019. [ 4 ] Its prefecture and largest city is Albi ; it has a single subprefecture , Castres .
Burnmoor Tarn, on Eskdale Fell in Cumbria, England, is the largest entirely natural tarns in the Lake District. Its waters flow into Whillan Beck at the tarn's north-eastern corner, which immediately turns south and flows into Eskdale , joining the Esk at Beckfoot. [ 1 ]
Stickle Tarn is a small tarn near Harrison Stickle in Lake District, England. The tarn was enlarged by the building of a stone dam in 1838 and is used to supply water for the inhabitants of Langdale. The tarn is situated in a corrie, flanked on the west side by Harrison Stickle, and on the north by the massive imposing bulk of Pavey Ark's
Albi (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Albi) [3] is a commune in southern France. It is the prefecture of the Tarn department, on the river Tarn, 85 km northeast of Toulouse.