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East Grand Lake (part of the Chiputneticook Lakes) North Lake, partly in North Lake Parish, New Brunswick. Glazier Lake. Beau Lake. Lac de l'Est. Little St. John Lake (Petit lac Saint-Jean) Lac Wallace. Line Pond (Etang Duck) Lake Memphremagog a 40-mile-long (64 km) glacial lake that extends from Vermont into Canada.
Recursive islands and lakes. Aral Sea, formerly the third largest lake in the world, with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi) Lake Chad, formerly the eleventh largest lake in the world, with an area of 26,000 km 2 (10,000 sq mi) Lake Urmia, formerly with an area of 5,200 km 2 (2,000 sq mi), but down to a tenth that size in 2017.
Lake Zaysan in Kazakhstan is one of the oldest lakes in the world. An ancient lake is a lake that has consistently carried water for more than one million years. 12 of the 20 ancient lakes have existed for more than 2.6 million years, the full Quaternary period. Ancient lakes continue to persist due to plate tectonics in an active rift zone.
The average lake on Earth has the mean depth 41.8 meters (137.14 feet) [9] The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths). Of the 114 registered lakes; 60 are known to be cryptodepressions.
1.4% (variable) Balkhash. Kazakhstan. Karaganda Region, Jambyl Region and Almaty Region. 16,400 km 2 (6,300 sq mi) 100 km 3 (24 cu mi) (decreasing) 0.3% (variable) In 1960, the Aral Sea was the world's twelfth-largest known lake by volume, at 1,100 km 3 (260 cu mi). However, by 2007 it had shrunk to 10% of its original volume and was divided ...
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.
List of lakes of West Virginia; List of lakes of Wisconsin; List of lakes of Wyoming; See also. Lakes portal This page was last edited on 8 August 2024, at ...
List of reservoirs by surface area. Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by damming the outlet of a canyon or valley to form a lake; the largest of this type is Ghana 's Lake Volta, with a water surface of 8,500 km 2 (3,300 sq mi).