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Paternoster lake. A paternoster lake is one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system. The name comes from the word Paternoster, another name for the Lord's Prayer derived from the Latin words for the prayer's opening words, "Our Father"; Paternoster lakes are so called because of their resemblance to ...
Lake Agassiz (/ ˈæɡəsi / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined. [2]
Kettle Lakes Provincial Park is a provincial park in northeastern Ontario, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Timmins. It is administered by Ontario Parks, which classifies it as a recreation park. The landscape of the park is the legacy of the retreat of an enormous glacier at the end of the last Ice Age, approximately 12,000 years ago.
The Experimental Lakes Area was established in 1968 by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Dr. John Reubec Vallentyne and Dr. W. E. Johnson of the Freshwater Institute created the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA). While Vallentyne was Scientific Leader of the Eutrophication Section from 1966 to 1972, he attracted a stellar staff of scientists ...
Kettle lake: Depression, formed by a block of ice separated from the main glacier, in which the lake forms; Tarn: A lake formed in a cirque by overdeepening; Paternoster lake: A series of lakes in a glacial valley, formed when a stream is dammed by successive recessional moraines left by an advancing or retreating glacier
Mount Brandon or Brandon (Irish: Cnoc Bréanainn, meaning 'Brendan's hill'), [4] at 952 metres (3,123 ft), is one of the ten highest peaks in Ireland, being the 8th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and the 9th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list. [5] Brandon is the highest Irish mountain outside the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range ...
Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan / mænɪkwɑːɡən, - ɡɒ̃ /) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of 1,942 km 2 (750 sq mi). The lake island in its centre is known as René-Levasseur Island, and its highest point is Mount Babel. The structure was created 214 (±1) million years ago, in the Late ...
Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake is a lake in the Canadian province of Manitoba. [3] [1] The name is Cree for "where the wild trout are caught by fishing with ...