With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

While the Chicago River historically handled much of the region's waterborne cargo, today's huge lake freighters use the city's Lake Calumet Harbor on the South Side.

Within the city boundaries, in Dachau Süd ( South ), there is also a small lake called Stadtweiher.

South of lake Roxen is the city Linköping.

Deep clays deposited by the lake are evident in cliffs around Chowilla in South Australia.

A dam on the Río Negro at Paso de los Toros has created a reservoir — the Embalse del Río Negro — that is the largest artificial lake in South America.

The earliest human remains found to date are those found at Lake Mungo, a dry lake in the south west of New South Wales.

South of the lake, it forms the border between the Kingdom of Jordan ( to the east ) and Israel and the West Bank ( to the west ).

Rock house settlement seen on left in 1927 while Lake Murray ( South Carolina ) was under construction, middle and right are two angles of aspect on Side-scan sonar in 100 ft of fresh water under the lake in 2005

South of the lake lie the Shire Highlands, with an elevation of, rising to elevations of at the Zomba Plateau and Mulanje Massif respectively.

Cyprinus carpio carpio on the dry lake bed of Lake Albert ( New South Wales ) | Lake Albert in New South Wales, Australia

* Lake Jasper, a permanent freshwater lake in the South West area of Western Australia

It is the largest lake in the country and the fifth largest in all of South America with an average surface area of 2, 240 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

By 2007, it had declined to 10 % of its original size, splitting into four lakes – the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea and one smaller lake between North and South Aral Seas.

The main features of Bolivia's geography include the Altiplano, a highland plateau of the Andes and Lake Titicaca ( Lago Titicaca ), the largest lake in South America and the highest commercially navigable lake on Earth ( which it shares with Peru ).

With a surface area of, it is larger than Puerto Rico and is South America's largest lake.

The lake contains a part of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, joining the South Shore and Beauharnois canals.

If this is the case, it would make Gargarei virtually equivalent to the Georgian term Dzurdzuk ( referring to the lake Durdukka in the South Caucasus, where they are thought to have migrated from, as noted by Strabo, before intermixing with the local population ) which applied to a Nakh people who migrated North across the mountains to settle in modern Ingushetia.

Four of its five towns ( North Hero, South Hero, Grand Isle and Isle La Motte ) are situated entirely on islands in Lake Champlain, while Alburgh is on a peninsula ( known as the Alburgh Tongue ) extending south into the lake from Quebec.

The lowest point in the state of South Dakota is located on Big Stone Lake at Big Stone City in Grant County, adjacent to Ortonville, Minnesota, where the lake flows into the Minnesota River.

Points with the same longitude lie in lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea.

The South Sandwich Islands lie about southeast of South Georgia.

South of Adam's Peak lie the parallel ridges of the Rakwana Hills, with several peaks over 1, 400 meters.

Montreal is neighbored both by municipalities that lie on the same island in the St. Lawrence River, as well as " off-island suburbs " including the two largest, Laval ( located on a neighboring island ) and Longueuil ( on the mainland ), as well as a " ring " of smaller municipalities on the South and North shores of the river.

South of the Alps lie the hills characterized by a succession of low heights of morainic origin, formed during the last Ice Age and small barely fertile plateaux, with typical heaths and conifer woods.

North of this lie the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs, beyond which lies the well-wooded Sussex Weald.

The valley within the city limits contains Downtown and South Frankfort districts, which lie opposite one another on the river.

Its origins lie in two local governments established at the 10 June 1949 elections: Town of the South Coast, which merged the Town of Coolangatta, Town of Southport and part of the Shire of Nerang ; and the Shire of Albert, which took in a large surrounding region.

They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America.

Bevan begins: " A young miner in a South Wales colliery, my concern was with the one practical question: Where does power lie in this particular state of Great Britain, and how can it be attained by the workers?

The northern two-thirds of Chile lie on top of the telluric Nazca Plate, which, moving eastward about ten centimeters a year, is forcing its way under the continental plate of South America.

A little-used railway line even crossed the main concourse on the level and passed through an archway in the station building to connect to the South Eastern Railway's smaller station, now Waterloo East, whose tracks lie almost perpendicular to those of Waterloo.

The Broads, although administered by the Broads Authority, give their name to the Broadland local government district, while parts of the Broads also lie within other council areas: North Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norwich and Great Yarmouth ( all in Norfolk ) and Waveney district in Suffolk.

It is one of five South Dakota counties that lie entirely on Indian reservations.

It is also one of five South Dakota counties that lie entirely within an Indian reservation.

It is one of five South Dakota counties that lie entirely on Indian reservations.

It is the most populous and the second-largest geographically ( to Corson County, South Dakota ) of the six U. S. counties that lie entirely within an Indian reservation.

) Three other counties, Thurston County, Nebraska ; Dewey County, South Dakota and Ziebach County, South Dakota, lie entirely in parts of two separate Indian reservations, for a total of nine counties that lie entirely within reservation territory.

Electric eels inhabit fresh waters of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, the basins in South America, in river floodplains, swamps, creeks and coastal plains.

The Macquarie Marshes comprise the wetlands associated with the floodplains of the Macquarie River and its tributaries, in northern New South Wales, Australia.

Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda ; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan.

The river begins in the gorge country of western Queensland, meanders south and spreads into the vast floodplains of New South Wales, eventually reaching the Paroo overflow lakes.

Eight species are native to Central and South America, from Belize southward to Brazil and Peru, growing mainly in swamps and floodplains.