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Crystal Lake

(Encyclopedia)Crystal Lake, city (2020 pop. 40,269), McHenry co., NE Ill., in a farming area; inc. 1874. Electrical components, tools, plastics, and machinery are man...

Powell, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Powell, Lake: see Glen Canyon Dam. ...

Kinneret, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Kinneret, Lake: see Galilee, Sea of. ...

Pleshcheyevo, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Pleshcheyevo, Lake, Russia: see Pereslavl-Zalesski. ...

Volta, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Volta, Lake, Ghana: see Volta, river. ...

Owens Lake

(Encyclopedia)Owens Lake: see under Owens, river, California. ...

Buttle Lake

(Encyclopedia)Buttle Lake, 11 sq mi (28 sq km), central Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada. It is the site of major zinc and copper deposits. ...

Elliot Lake

(Encyclopedia)Elliot Lake, city, S central Ont., Canada, W of Sudbury. The focus of a 1950s uranium-mining boom, it is now a retirement home center. Uranium mining en...

Malheur Lake

(Encyclopedia)Malheur Lake, c.15 mi (25 km) long and up to 5 mi (8 km) wide, in Harney Basin, SE Oreg. It receives the basin's interior drainage. A national wildlife refuge is there. ...

Baker Lake

(Encyclopedia)Baker Lake, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), Nunavut Territory, Canada, W of Chesterfield Inlet of Hudson Bay. It has a post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at its western end. ...