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This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface area larger than 100 km 2, [1] including four of the Great Lakes. Almost 9% (891,163 square ...
Waterton was the fourth Canadian national park, formed in 1895 as Kootenay Lakes Forest Reserve. It is named after Waterton Lake, in turn after the Victorian naturalist and conservationist Charles Waterton. Its range is between the Rocky Mountains and prairies. This park contains 505 km 2 (195 sq mi) of rugged mountains and wilderness.
Inscription. 1995 (19th Session) Area. 457,614 ha (1,766.86 sq mi) The Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is the union of Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and Glacier National Park in the United States. Both parks are declared Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO and their union as a World Heritage Site.
Lake Fianga. Cameroon / Chad. Lake Kariba. Zambia / Zimbabwe. Lake Kivu. Democratic Republic of the Congo / Rwanda. Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique) Malawi / Mozambique / Tanzania. Lake Mweru.
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA, known as ELA before 2014) [2] is an internationally unique research station encompassing 58 formerly pristine freshwater lakes in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada. [3][4] In response to the International Joint Commission (IJC)'s 1965 recommendations related to transboundary pollution, [5] the federal and ...
St. Lawrence River. 500 km (310 mi) excluding the estuary. C. 928 km if included. The St. Lawrence River (French: Fleuve Saint-Laurent [flœv sɛ̃lɔʁɑ̃]) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake ...
Great Bear Lake (Slave: Sahtú; French: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world. [4] The lake is in the Northwest Territories, on ...
Lake Memphremagog. Lake Memphremagog (mem-frə-MAY-gog; [1] French: Lac Memphrémagog) is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada. [2] The lake spans both Quebec and Vermont, but is mostly in Quebec. Most of the watershed that feeds the lake is located in Vermont, and is a source for ...