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Ontario, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Ontario, Lake, 7,540 sq mi (19,529 sq km), 193 mi (311 km) long and 53 mi (85 km) at its greatest width, between SE Ont., Canada, and NW N.Y.; smallest and lowest of the Great Lakes. It has a surface ...

theme park

(Encyclopedia)theme park: see amusement park.

Scutari, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Scutari, Lake sko͞oˈtərē [key], Albanian Ligeni i Shkodrës, Serbo-Croatian Skadarsko Jezero, c.25 mi (40 km) long and from 4 to 8 mi (6.4–12.9 km) wide, SE Europe, on the Montenegro-Albania bor...

Palisades Park

(Encyclopedia)Palisades Park, residential borough (1990 pop. 14,536), Bergen co., NE N.J.; inc. 1899. Palisades Park is notable for its proportionally high Korean-American population. ...

Albert, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Albert, Lake, or Albert Nyanza nīănˈzə, nyänˈzä [key], 2,064 sq mi (5,346 sq km), on the Congo (Kinshasa)–Uganda border, E central Africa. The lake is c.100 mi (160 km) long and c.19 mi (30 k...

Massapequa Park

(Encyclopedia)Massapequa Park, residential village (1990 pop. 18,044), Nassau co., SE N.Y., on Long Island; inc. 1931. Nearby is Bethpage State Park, with its championship-level golf courses. ...

Okanagan Lake

(Encyclopedia)Okanagan Lake ōkənäˈgən [key], 69 mi (111 km) long and from 2 to 4 mi (3.2–6.4 km) wide, S British Columbia, Canada. It drains southward through the Okanagan River. The lake is in a prosperous ...

Turkana, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Turkana, Lake, c.2,500 sq mi (6,475 sq km), NW Kenya and SW Ethiopia, E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley; alt. 1,230 ft (375 m). Surrounded by desolate, volcanic mountains, the 170-mi-long (274-km) al...

Oneida Lake

(Encyclopedia)Oneida Lake ōnīˈdə [key], c.80 sq mi (210 sq km), 22 mi (35 km) long and 1 to 5 mi (1.6–8.1 km) wide, central N.Y., NE of Syracuse. The New York State Canal System links the eastern end of the l...

Melville, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Melville, Lake, saltwater lake, 1,133 sq mi (2,934 sq km), SE Labrador, N.L., Canada, extending c.120 mi (190 km) inland from Hamilton Inlet, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It receives the Churchill Ri...