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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. ...

Powell, Lake

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

Prespa, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Prespa, Lake prĕsˈpä [key], Albanian Prespës, Macedonian Prespansko, 112 sq mi (290 sq km), SW North Macedonia, NW Greece, and E Albania; highest lake (alt. 2,798 ft/853 m) of the Balkans. It is c...

Pontchartrain, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Pontchartrain, Lake pŏnˈchərtrān [key], shallow lake, c.630 sq mi (1,630 sq km), 41 mi (66 km) long and 25 mi (40 km) wide, SE La., N of New Orleans. It is linked with Lake Maurepas at its western...

Chad, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Chad, Lake chăd, chäd [key], N central Africa. It lies mainly in Chad and Cameroon. Some 550 sq mi (1,425 sq km) in area in 2003, the shallow lake has been greatly reduced in size since the 1960s, w...

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. ...

Victoria, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Victoria, Lake, or Victoria Nyanza nēănˈzə, nī– [key], largest lake of Africa and the world's second largest freshwater lake, c.26,830 sq mi (69,490 sq km), E central Africa, on the Uganda-Tanz...

Volta, Lake

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

Vostok, Lake

(Encyclopedia)Vostok, Lake väˈstôk [key], c.3,900 sq mi (10,000 sq km), c.155 mi (250 km) long and 30 mi (50 km) at its greatest width, in East Antartica beneath the remote Vostok research station. One of the la...

Cayuga Lake

(Encyclopedia)Cayuga Lake kāyo͞oˈgə, kī–, kə– [key], 38 mi (61 km) long and 1 to 3.5 mi (1.6–5.6 km) wide, W central N.Y.; longest of the Finger Lakes. It is connected by the Seneca-Cayuga Canal to the ...