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Llyn Cowlyd is the deepest lake in northern Wales. It lies in the Snowdonia National Park at the upper end of Cwm Cowlyd on the south-eastern edge of the Carneddau range of mountains, at a height of 330 metres (1,083 ft) above sea level. The lake is long and narrow, measuring nearly 3 kilometres (2 mi) long and about 500 m (third of a mile ...
Geologically, the Caspian Sea, like the Black and Mediterranean seas, is a remnant of the ancient Tethys Ocean. The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level.
This list of Welsh lakes ordered by principal areas (counties and county boroughs) includes lakes with a surface area of greater than 5 acres (2.0 ha), but excludes those lakes and ponds created as part of an active industrial site (i.e., works ponds) and also excludes service reservoirs used to store drinking water as part of the water supply system.
Crater Lake is the deepest lake in America, and one of its most pristine. ... not really − but a 30-foot-long mountain log called the Old Man has been floating around the lake since at least ...
The United States features hundreds of thousands of natural and man-made lakes that provide water sources to people and wildlife. These lakes vary in surface area and depth – with some being ...
Bala Lake, or Llyn Tegid ([ˈɬɨ̞n ˈtɛɡɨd]), is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee , which has its source on the slopes of Dduallt in the mountains of Snowdonia , feeds the 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide lake.
American limnologist J. Val Klump was the first person to reach the lowest depth of Lake Superior on July 30, 1985, as part of a scientific expedition, which at 122 fathoms 1 foot (733 ft or 223 m) below sea level is the second-lowest spot in the continental interior of the United States and the third-lowest spot in the interior of the North ...
The lake's maximum depth has been measured at 1,949 feet (594 m), [3] [6] [15] [16] which fluctuates slightly as the weather changes. [3] On the basis of maximum depth, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second-deepest in North America (after Great Slave Lake in Canada), and the ninth-deepest lake in the world. [17]