Water bodies

Water bodies

Referring to any significant accumulation of water usually on planet earth but also on other planetary bodies.

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Lake Ontario

Water bodies; Lakes

The smallest and most easterly of the Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north by Ontario (Can. ) and on the south by New York (U. S. ). The lake is roughly ...

Lake Winnipeg

Water bodies; Lakes

The lake is in the south-central Manitoba, Canada, at the southwestern edge of the Canadian Shield, the rocky, glaciated region of eastern Canada. Fed by many rivers, including ...

Lake Erie

Water bodies; Lakes

The fourth largest of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest ...

Great Slave

Water bodies; Lakes

The lake is located in east-central Fort Smith region, Northwest Territories, Canada, near the Alberta border. It was named for the Slave Indians. The lake was visited in 1771 by ...

Great Bear Lake

Water bodies; Lakes

The lake, in northern Fort Smith region and southeastern Inuvik region, Northwest Territories, Canada, lying astride the Arctic Circle. Irregular in shape and containing many ...

Lake Baikal

Water bodies; Lakes

The lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk oblast (province) of Russia. It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on ...

Lake Tanganyika

Water bodies; Lakes

The second largest of the lakes of eastern Africa. It is the longest freshwater lake in the world (410 miles (660 km)) and the second deepest (4,710 feet (1,436 m)) after Lake ...