Category: Lakes
Popular lakes around the world, usually famous landmarks on thier own.
Crescent-shaped Lake Geneva (or Lac Léman) lies between France and Switzerland, with the Alps as a backdrop. Canton Vaud includes much of the mountainous area to the north of Lake Geneva. It is the most powerful French-speaking canton economically and politically. There was a lot of unrest in the neighbourhood…
View moreLake Constance (known in German as Bodensee) is a central European lake 63 km long, bordering Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Rhine River flows into it and its two parts lie on either side of the river: the "lower lake" and the "larger lake" (upper lake). Connected by the coastline,…
View moreLake Michigan is the only fully-contained Great Lake in the United States. The lake borders Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana.
View moreOkanagan Lake is a large, deep lake in British Columbia, Canada's Okanagan Valley. The lake is 135 kilometers (84 miles) long, 4 to 5 kilometers (2.5 to 3.1 miles) wide, and has a surface area of 348 km2. Okanagan Lake is known as a fjord lake because it was carved…
View moreLake Louise is a hamlet in the Canadian Rockies National Park in Banff, known for its turquoise, glacier-fed lake ringed by high peaks and overlooked by a majestic chateau. Lake Louise is famous around the world for its turquoise lakes, the Victoria Glacier, the soaring mountain backdrop, the palatial hotel,…
View moreThe bent, almost banana-shaped Lake Zurich is surrounded by the hills of Albis and Zimmerberg on the southern side, and the hills of Pfannenstiel on the north. Lake Zürich consists of the Linth River, rising on the Glarus alpine glaciers, which was transferred to Lake Walen via the Escher canal,…
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