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Lake of the Woods
(Manitoba, Canada / Ontario, Canada / Minnesota, USA) |
25,000 |
Spanning the border from Minnesota into the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, Lake of the Woods is an enormous body of water over 68 miles long, 59 miles wide, with 25,000 miles of shoreline. The western part of the lake is mostly open water, while the eastern part is dotted with more than ...
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Great Salt Lake
(Utah, USA) |
10,000 |
Sometimes called "America's Dead Sea," the Great Salt Lake occupies approximately 1,700 square miles of Utah's real estate. The lake is actually the largest remnant of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, and has a salinity much higher (saltier) than ocean water. Despite its nickname, however, the lake ...
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Lake Nasser
(Egypt) |
5,592 |
Also known as: Aswah High Dam ReservoirLake Nasser, in Egypt's Upper Region, is a modern technological marvel with ancient roots. In Egypt's extremely arid climate, the Nile and its annual floods have provided fertile sediments since before the time of recorded history. Attempts to dam the Nile have been on-going since at least the year ... |
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Lake Michigan-Huron
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Illinois, USA / Indiana, USA / Michigan, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
5,463 |
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron - two of North America's Great Lakes - are contiguous and they share the same elevation of 577 feet above sea level. They are connected by the five-mile-wide Straits of Mackinac. Hydrologically, this makes the "two lakes" a single lake. Some hydrologists designate the ...
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Lake Huron
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Michigan, USA) |
3,825 |
A glacial lake of epic proportions, Lake Huron is the second largest of the five Great Lakes by surface area, boasting 23,010 square miles and an incredible 3,825-mile shoreline. The massive lake is the third largest of the Great Lakes by water volume, containing 850 cubic miles of fresh water within ...
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Bratsk Reservoir
(Russia) |
3,728 |
It has been said that one of the most striking things about Siberia is the scale. Just the name conjures images of vast snowy expanses, impossibly thick forests and incredibly high mountains. Its manmade features maintain the sense of scale, and with well over a million acres of water, Bratsk Reservoir ...
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Caspian Sea
(Azerbaijan / Iran / Kazakhstan / Russia / Turkmenistan) |
3,467 |
Also known as: Mazandaran Sea, Khazar Sea, Khvalyn Sea With the largest volume of any saltwater "lake" on earth, the Caspian Sea holds well over 62 billion acre-feet of saltwater. Many classify the Caspian Sea not as a lake, but as an inland sea. (There is no widely accepted definition of "lake," but most exclude bodies of saltwater.) Considered by many ... |
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Caniapiscau Reservoir
(Quebec, Canada) |
3,010 |
Also known as: Lake Caniapiscau "The money is not as useful as the land was before we lost it." -Chisasibi Cree Native About 9,000 years ago, the glaciers receded on the Laurentian Plateau of the Canadian Shield, leaving pockets of lakes in their wake. The rivers were fast and ran with snowmelt, and lakes covered the landscape. ... |
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Lake Volta
(African Great Lakes / Ghana) |
2,983 |
Also known as: Volta Lake or Volta Reservoir Lake Volta, the world's fourth largest reservoir, is a lake with a mission. Known to locals as Volta Lake, it was built to provide electricity, fresh water and economic opportunities to the people of Ghana. The lake borders the regions of Volta, Central, Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, and Great Accra. In 1961, ... |
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Lake Superior
(Ontario, Canada / Great Lakes / Michigan, USA / Minnesota, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
2,726 |
Skipping over state and country borders, Lake Superior, the largest, deepest, coldest, cleanest, least developed, and most pristine of the Great Lakes, reigns as the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. By volume, this 31,820 square mile colossus ranks fourth - a whopping 2,900 cubic ...
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Wollaston Lake
(Saskatchewan, Canada) |
2,700 |
Wilderness adventures draw people to Wollaston Lake in northeastern Saskatchewan. Sparsely populated, Wollaston Lake is home to copious amounts of wildlife, birds and freshwater fishing fun. Wollaston is one of a few lakes in Saskatchewan offering anglers the chance to reel in pike, lake trout, walleye ...
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Kentucky Lake
(Kentucky, USA / Tennessee, USA) |
2,380 |
Kentucky Lake is the largest manmade lake east of the Mississippi: 184 miles long, 2 miles wide, 160,309 surface acres, and 2,380 miles of shoreline! The lake stretches south across the western tip of Kentucky into Tennessee. The lake was created in 1944 by the Tennessee Valley Authority for navigation, ...
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Lake Oahe
(North Dakota, USA / South Dakota, USA) |
2,250 |
Lake Oahe, named after an Oahe Indian Mission roughly translates "a foundation" or "a place to stand on." Spanning 231 miles from Pierre, South Dakota, to Bismarck, North Dakota, and with a shoreline of 2250 miles, it is no wonder Lake Oahe is the nation's 4th largest man-made reservoir. Located north ...
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Lake Victoria
(African Great Lakes / Kenya / Kagera, Tanzania / Mara, Tanzania / Mwanza, Tanzania / Uganda) |
2,138 |
Also known as: Victoria Nyanza, Victoria Ukerewe, Victoria Nalubaale Lake Victoria -- also known as Victoria Nyanza, Ukerewe, and Nalubaale -- rakes in the superlatives: it is the largest lake on the African continent, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. Joined by five others, Lake Victoria is one ... |
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Great Slave Lake
(Northwest Territories, Canada) |
1,900 |
Great Slave Lake is the fifth-largest lake (by acreage) in North America and, following Great Bear Lake, is the second-largest in Canada. A natural lake, it is located in south-central Northwest Territories (NWT) and is the tenth largest in the world. Great Slave Lake is just south of the Artic Circle ...
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Lake Powell
(Arizona, USA / Utah, USA) |
1,900 |
Lake Powell is located in one of Southern Utah's most picturesque red-rock desert areas and Arizona's Navaho Indian Reservation. It is one of the most scenic reservoirs in the United States and, after Lake Mead, the second largest man-made. With over 1900 miles of shoreline, temperate climate and an ...
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Smallwood Reservoir
(Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) |
1,756 |
Wild, diverse and always impressive, Smallwood Reservoir is not a place to be taken lightly. Smallwood Reservoir is not a place for leisurely lakeside strolls and gourmet candlelight dinners. The area is best described in the provincial tourism brochure, where it says this is a land for the traveler ...
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Great Bear Lake
(Northwest Territories, Canada) |
1,690 | Great Bear Lake is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is a natural lake, encircled by wilderness, and the largest completely in Canada. Great Bear Lake is on the Artic Circle and ice-covered eight months out of the year. With an area of over 7 million acres and more than 26 islands, ... |
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Lake Michigan
(Great Lakes / Illinois, USA / Indiana, USA / Michigan, USA / Wisconsin, USA) |
1,638 |
As the only Great Lake nestled completely within the boundaries of the United States, Lake Michigan is the pride and joy of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The lake boasts a huge area of 22,400 square miles, making it the largest freshwater lake (by surface area) in the world to be contained ...
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Kuybyshev Reservoir
(Russia) |
1,618 |
Also known as: Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir, Kuibyshev Reservoir The Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir is a 1,593,823-acre lake in the middle of the Volga and lower Kama rivers in west central (Middle Volga Region) Russia. The reservoir was created by the Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station dam located between the cities of Zhigulevsk and Togliatti in Samara ... |
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Fort Peck Lake
(Montana, USA) |
1,520 | Fort Peck Lake located 20 miles southeast of Glasgow, Montana on Montana Highway 24, is the 5th-largest man-made reservoir in the United States, and is Montana's largest lake. Named after an old trading post, Fort Peck Lake is one of six lakes on the Missouri River. The other five lakes are Lake Sakakawea, ... |
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Reindeer Lake
(Manitoba, Canada / Saskatchewan, Canada) |
1,380 |
Reindeer Lake is the one of the largest lakes in North America, covering about 1,500,000 acres and spanning the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces in Canada. Estimates of the lake's immense size range from 1,309,800 to 1,640,000 acres. At 180 miles long, Reindeer Lake's exterior shoreline ...
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Rybinsk Reservoir
(Russia) |
1,336 |
Also known as: Rybinsk Sea Located in western European Russia, Rybinsk Reservoir is as large and impressive as Russia itself. Rybinsk Reservoir sits on the Volga River as part of an expansive system of canals and reservoirs connecting Moscow through St. Petersburg, all the way to the Baltic Sea. As early as the ninth century, ... |
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Grand Lake O'the Cherokees
(Oklahoma, USA) |
1,300 |
Also known as: Grand Lake Over the Cherokees Grand Lake O' the Cherokees stands out as a sapphire jewel tucked into the northeastern Oklahoma landscape. Created in 1940, the reservoir stretches for 46,500 acres and offers explorers more than 1,300 miles of shoreline to investigate. Known for its incredible scenery and wealth of recreation activities, ... |
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Lake Baikal
(Russia) |
1,300 |
Also known as: Lake Baykal, Sacred Sea, Pearl of Siberia, Blue Eye of Siberia, Galapagos of Russia Russia's national treasure, Lake Baikal, is the world's deepest lake and is our planet's largest freshwater lake measured by water volume. Its bottom is 4,215 feet below sea level. Lake Baikal contains about 1/5 of Earth's unfrozen surface freshwater. It is the most important lake on Earth. Lake ... |
