Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

Other volcanic peaks rise from the floor of the valleys, some of the Kirunga ( Mfumbiro ) group, north of Lake Kivu, being still partially active.

* National Road No. 2, Kisangani-Bukavu – Goma, connecting the principal waterway systems of the country, namely Kinshasa-Kisangani on the Congo River and the Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika systems on the eastern edge of the country.

* Goma and Bukavu on Lake Kivu to Gisenyi, Kibuye and Cyangugu in Rwanda.

* Bukavu to Goma on Lake Kivu

** 2008 Lake Kivu earthquake

Production of methane from Lake Kivu began in 1983, but to date has been used only by the Bralirwa Brewery.

The country has an international airport at Kigali, serving one domestic and several international destinations, and also has limited transport between the port cities on Lake Kivu.

The average daily temperature near Lake Kivu, at an altitude of is.

Expansion continued, reaching the shores of Lake Kivu.

Götzen entered Rwanda at Rusumo Falls, and then travelled through Rwanda, meeting the mwami ( king ) at his palace in Nyanza, and eventually reaching Lake Kivu, the western edge of the kingdom.

Shore of Lake Kivu at Gisenyi

Belgium also helped in re-launching fisheries in Lake Kivu, at a value of US $ 470, 000, in 2001.

The major river that flows into this lake, beginning 10. 6 ka, is the Ruzizi River, entering the north of the lake from Lake Kivu.

Because of rapid evaporation from the tropical location of the lake, this in turn depends on a high inflow through the Ruzizi out of Lake Kivu to keep the lake high enough to overflow.

This outflow is apparently not more than 12, 000 years old, caused by lava flows blocking and diverting the Kivu basin's previous outflow into Lake Edward and then the Nile system, and causing Tanganyika's water level to rise up to its current overflow level: ancient shorelines indicate that at times Tanganyika may have been up to 300m lower than its present surface level, with no outlet to the sea.

Nyos is one of only three known exploding lakes to be saturated with carbon dioxide in this way, the others being Lake Monoun, away SSE, and Lake Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lake Nyos is one of only three lakes in the world known to be saturated with carbon dioxide — the others are Lake Monoun, also in Cameroon, and Lake Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lake Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo, 2, 000 times larger than Lake Nyos, was also found to be supersaturated, and geologists found evidence for outgassing events around the lake about every thousand years.

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

The main basin is the Mus Valley, west of Lake Van.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Most of Armenia is drained by the Araks or its tributary, the Hrazdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.

Another environmental concern is a significant drop in Lake Sevan's water level because of drawdowns for irrigation and the diversion of water to hydroelectric plants to compensate for the electric power lost through the inactivity of the nuclear plant at Metsamor.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

Shown is a sign indicating an accessible fishing platform at Drano Lake, Washington ( state ) | Washington.

* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them brackish and without outlet, the only one comparable to those of the western trough being Lake Turkana or Basso Norok.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

* 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

The country's topography is generally flat, with the elevation gradually rising as one moves north and east away from Lake Chad.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

Lake Chad also changes greatly in size from one year to another.

In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.

The city center is in fact only one block from Lake Cadillac and, by docking at the public docks, is as nearly accessible by boat as it is by car.

The hull of one of Nemi ships | two ships recovered from Lake Nemi during the 1930s.

With 33. 7 % salinity, it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, though Lake Assal ( Djibouti ), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica ( such as Don Juan Pond ) have reported higher salinities.

By Lake Tisaren, I have seen one of those.

Oneida Lake is generally not considered one of the Finger Lakes, but it is sometimes called the " thumb ".

Onondaga Lake, though located just north of the Finger Lakes region, is not considered one of the Finger Lakes.

" Of the five lakes, Lake Michigan is the only one that is located entirely within the United States ; the others form a water border between the United States and Canada.

The best way to get to the various Mayan villages around Lake Atitlan is on one of the ubiquitous " shark " boats.

Lake Miragoâne is one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in the Caribbean, with an area of 25 km².

) The five international ones are Budapest-Liszt Ferenc, Debrecen Airport, Sármellék Airport ( also called FlyBalaton for its proximity to Lake Balaton, Hungary's number one tourist attraction ), Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány.

* Hemlock Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in New York

In 1825, Sir John Franklin wrote that " The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport " while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.

Once they journeyed as far as Lake Garda during one of Francesco's absences, and later travelled to Venice.