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Longest freshwater lake in the world and third largest of any kind by volume. [18] 7: Baikal Russia: Fresh 31,722 km 2 12,248 sq mi 636 km 395 mi 1,642 m 5,387 ft 23,610 km 3 5,660 cu mi Deepest lake in the world and largest freshwater lake in the world by volume. [19] 8: Great Bear Lake Canada: Fresh 31,153 km 2 12,028 sq mi 373 km 232 mi 446 m
Smallwood Reservoir, Churchill Falls generating station, largest capacity in North America (5,428 MW installed, expandable to 9,252 MW); the world's second-largest reservoir. Ossokmanuan Reservoir, Twin Falls generating station (diverted to Churchill Falls) Cat Arm Reservoir, Cat Arm Hydroelectric Generating Station
4.2 Canada. 4.3 Costa Rica. ... (the largest earth-filled dam in the world and also the largest by structural ... List of reservoirs by surface area; List of largest ...
This is short compared to other dams. However, when viewed against the 81,200 km2 area of the lake, even a small range in Lake Superior's water level means its active volume is greater than the largest nominal in the table below.
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).
Great Bear Lake (North Slavey: 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 ]
Canada's geographic proximity to the United States has historically bound the two countries together in the political world as well. Canada's position between the Soviet Union (now Russia) and the U.S. was strategically important during the Cold War since the route over the North Pole and Canada was the fastest route by air between the two ...
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 ...