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Lake Winnipeg

LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba, Lake Winnipeg (Cree for “murky or muddy waters”) is 266 mi (428 km) long and has an area of 9,417 square mi (24,390 square km).
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  • Дата: August 4, 2010, 04:14 PM

Lake Victoria

WITH AN AREA of 26,830 square mi (69,490 square km), Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and, after Lake Superior in North America, the second largest lake in the world.
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  • Дата: July 21, 2010, 11:27 AM

Lake Titicaca

High in the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Peru at 12,580 ft (3,810 m) above sea level, Lake Titicaca is said to be the highest fresh-water lake on Earth navigated by large vessels.
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  • Дата: July 21, 2010, 02:34 AM

Lake Tanganyika

LAKE TANGANIKA IS IN east-central Africa in the Great Rift Valley at an elevation of 2,534 ft (772 m). It is very deep and narrow in typical rift formation with mountains rising out of the lake.
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  • Дата: July 20, 2010, 12:05 PM

Lake Superior

LAKE SUPERIOR IS THE coldest, deepest and largest of the Great Lakes, a group of lakes located along the border between the United States and Canada.
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  • Дата: June 17, 2010, 05:37 AM

Lake Ontario

LAKE ONTARIO, BORDERED by the United States (New York state) and Canada (province of Ontario), is the smallest and easternmost of the five Great Lakes, covering an area of 7,320 square mi (18,960 square km).
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  • Дата: June 5, 2010, 02:30 PM

Lake Michigan

LAKE MICHIGAN IS one of the five original Great Lakes, which are located near or along the border between the United States and Canada; a sixth lake, Lake Champlain, was added to the Great Lakes category in 1998.

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  • Дата: June 5, 2010, 11:05 AM

Lake Malawi

LAKE MALAWI IS LOCATED in southeastern Africa lying within the crease where the eastern and western branches of the Great Rift Valley meet. According to the Center of Great Lakes Studies, Lake Malawi is the ninth-largest lake in the world by area and the fifthlargest lake in the world by volume.
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  • Дата: May 9, 2010, 03:04 PM

Lake Huron

LAKE HURON IS ONE of the five Great Lakes and is named for the Hurons, a Native American people who once lived along its shores. Lake Huron covers 23,000 square mi (59,570 square km) and is 206 mi (332 km) long. At its greatest width, it is 193 mi (295 km) across.
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  • Дата: April 20, 2010, 02:27 PM

Lake Erie

LAKE ERIE, bordered by the province of Ontario in Canada to the north, New York to the east, Pennsylvania and Ohio to the south, and Michigan to the west, is the shallowest of the Great Lakes at only 62 ft (18.9 m) and it remains the smallest in volume.
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  • Дата: March 15, 2010, 11:44 AM

Geography of Lake Chad

Lake Chad is a shallow freshwater lake located in west-central Africa. Only 23 ft (7 m) at its deepest, it is 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, and was once larger than the state of Vermont.

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  • Дата: February 22, 2010, 08:23 PM

Geography of Lake Balkhash

LOCATED IN eastern Kazakhstan, Lake Balkhash is the world’s sixteenth-largest lake, covering a surface area of about 7,000 square mi (18,000 square km); however, its size is being reduced by overutilization of streams that flow into the lake.
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  • Дата: February 22, 2010, 08:14 PM

Geography of Lake Baikal

The Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, stretches 391 mi (636 km) long and nearly 50 mi (80 km) wide. On the northeastern borders of central Asia, it lies at an altitude of 1,494 ft (455.6 m) above the Pacific Ocean sea level.
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