The traditional owners of the lake, the Arabuna, are seeking to restore the lake's traditional name, Kati Thanda, and to ban boating on the lake ( effectively closing The Lake Eyre Yacht Club ).

However, by other more documented accounts, the lake's designation borrows from the moniker of a Native American woman, Magdalena, who interpreted the language for a Spanish expedition into Florida in 1549, or even more likely, the name comes from the 1882 marriage of John Parrish and Mary Magdalene Yates, daughter of Jonah Yates, first mayor of Plant City in the Lake Magdalene section of Hillsborough County.

The lake's name comes from the local Pequot Indian word for " lake with pierced islands ".

The city is named after its largest lake, White Bear Lake ; the lake's name allegedly comes from Native Americans who previously inhabited the region.

Later, the Red River Colony to its south took the lake's name for Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba.

Other explorers in the region incorrectly assumed that the lake's name was spelled ' heart ' because of its shape.

The lake's name in Latin is Lano, Italianized as Lario, but this name is rarely used ; it is usually called Lago di Como ( literally " Lake of Como ").

" The lake's name comes from the town of Como, known to the Romans as Comum.

The lake's name was transferred from a previous stream, which was probably named after the ' Virgin Queen ', Elizabeth I.

The lake's name has various meanings, based on a variety of translations of the original native words.

The lake's name originates from its islands ( Schlangeninsel

The lake's name comes from the Ojibwa word waanabidebiing, or " concave-tooth water ", which describes its shape.

The alternative name Lake Apolyont comes from the lake's classical name Apolloniatis, from Apollonia-on-the-Rhyndacum ( modern Gölyazı ), an ancient Greek city situated on its banks which had considerable importance since it was on major trade routes.

Beaver Lake " may soon need a name change " because flooding of some homeowner's docks, has prompted the Sammamish Parks and Recreation Department to obtain an emergency permit from the Washington Department of Ecology to relocate a family of beavers ( Castor canadensis ) that built a dam on Laughing Jacobs Creek, raising the lake's level.

The lake's name is derived from Chief John Compound, a Mattatuck / Tunxis Native American.

John C. Fremont, one of the lake's first White discoverers in 1844, named it " Lake Bonpland " after Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, a French botanist who had accompanied Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt in his exploration of Mexico, Colombia and the Amazon River .< ref name = rubiconbay >

Trinity Lake, in California's Trinity County, was renamed for Clair Engle, although the name Trinity Lake continued to be commonly used, and eventually the lake's original name was restored.

A variety of First Nations oral traditions explain the origin of the lake's name.

Despite a name suggestive of a small lily pad and algae-coated pool, Green Pond lake is fairly large ( approximately 2. 5 mi long and 0. 5 mi mile in breadth at its widest point-465 acres ( 0. 72 sq mi ) total ), and the water clarity is high due to the lake's source ( underground cold-water springs ).

The lake's name comes from the Algonquian word opeauwingauk meaning " sandy narrows ".

The lake gets its name from the naturally occurring foam that gives its water a soapy appearance, and because the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.

It is also suggested that the lake's name derives from Loch Riabhach ( meaning " speckled lake ").

The lake's popularity derives from its remoteness, climate and beauty, as well as its notoriety as the location of the murder of Grace Brown in 1906.

The impetus from this reversion continues to the lake's windward end and then reverts back.

The salinity of the lake's main basin, Gilbert Bay, is highly variable and depends on the lake's level ; it ranges from 5 to 27 % ( 50 to 270 parts per thousand ).

In 2006, the Russian government announced plans to build the world's first International Uranium Enrichment Centre at an existing nuclear facility in Angarsk, from the lake's shores.

An increased demand on the lake's water from the local population has likely accelerated its shrinkage over the past 40 years.

The final border approved in 1923 followed a 10-meter wide strip along the lake's northeastern shore, cutting Syria off from the lake.

These changes have arisen for multiple reasons: successive burning within its basin, soot and ash from which has been deposited over the lake's wide area ; from increased nutrient inflows via rivers, and from increased pollution associated with settlement along its shores.

Running roughly from south to north, the lake's waters empty into the Richelieu River, where waterfalls at Saint-Jean in Quebec mark the northernmost point of navigation.

It is a favorite fishing and recreation lake for soldiers in their off-duty hours, but also sees much use from area residents, campers and tourists, who access it from the state forest campground located at the lake's northwest corner.

Nevertheless, the plans continued and the steel mill was eventually completed in late 1892 on Rose Hill ( a full two miles ( 3 km ) from the lake's shore ).

This shallowness allows winds to easily stir up sediments from the lake's bottom, contributing to the turbidity or the impression of pollution seen in Utah Lake's water.

Without vegetation, winds can more easily stir up sediment from the bottom of the lake, which is already a problem due to the lake's shallowness, resulting in greater turbidity and less sunlight reaching the remaining vegetation.

Most of the water inflow is from the Waterhen River ( 42 % of the inflow ) and from precipitation directly on the lake's surface ( 40 %), while nearly 50 % of the outflow is by evaporation.

The lake may also have at times had different entries and exits: inward flows from a higher Lake Rukwa, access to Lake Malawi and an exit route to the Nile have all been proposed to have existed at some point in the lake's history.

The lake's water commonly has a striking blue hue, and the lake is re-filled entirely from direct precipitation in the form of snow and rain.

During several million years of the lake's existence, sediments were collecting at the bottom in the form of saline muds, gravels from nearby mountains, and ashfalls from the then-active Black Mountain volcanic field.

The lake's primary source is the Niagara River, draining Lake Erie, with the St. Lawrence River serving as the outlet.

As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point ( Belt Bay ) until late March little bird life appeared preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of Birdsville, where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

Southerly and westerly prevailing winds combined with warm surface waters of Lake Erie in summer also negate the lake's cooling ability on the city ; furthermore, the lake's presence increases humidity.

When the Argo was driven ashore in the Gulf of Syrtes Minor, the crew carried the vessel to the " Tritonian Lake ", Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity euhemeristically rationalized by Diodorus Siculus as " then ruler over Libya ", welcomed them with a guest-gift of a clod of earth and guided them through the lake's marshy outlet back to the Mediterranean.

The United Nations Environment Programme and the Lake Chad Basin Commission concur that at least half of the lake's decrease is attributable to shifting climate patterns.

The heavy snow totals across the county can be attributed to the lake-effect, where precipitation is intensified by the warm waters of the Great Salt Lake, which never entirely freezes due to the lake's high salinity.

Two rivers leave the lake, the White Nile ( known as the " Victoria Nile " as it leaves the lake ), flows out at Jinja, Uganda on the lake's north shore, and the Katonga River flows out at Lukaya on the western shore connecting the lake to Lake George.

By 2006, the water levels in Lake Victoria had reached an 80-year low, and Daniel Kull, an independent hydrologist living in Nairobi, Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water as is allowed under the agreement, and was primarily responsible for recent drops in the lake's level.

Barren River Lake State Resort Park is located primarily within Barren County, along the lake's shoreline.

Recent studies of two other Lake Tahoe tributaries, Taylor Creek and Ward Creek, showed that beaver dam removal decreased wetland habitat, increased stream flow, and increased total phosphorus pollutants entering Lake Tahoe-all factors which negatively impact the clarity of the lake's water.

In 1988, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Beacham v. Lake Zurich Property Owners Association ( 123 Ill. 2d 227 ; 526 N. E. 2d 154 ; 1988 Ill. LEXIS 91 ; 122 Ill. Dec 14, filed June 20, 1988 ) that each individual owner of the private ( aka non-public ) lake's bottom has the legal right to recreate over the surface waters of the entire private lake.

Common Loons are a frequent site on Long Lake and have been for decades becoming part of the lake's identity.

The lake was named Indian Lake due to the fact that settlers found Native Americans encamped along the lake's shores when they first arrived in 1869.

Sanbornville, the primary settlement in the town, lies at the west end of Lovell Lake, next to the lake's outlet.

As a result of the lake's existence, Lake Ronkonkoma was once a resort town, until the area experienced a population explosion in the mid-1900s.

During the 1950s, Lake Raymond Gary and Lake Raymond Gary State Park were created, and in 1979, Fort Towson's town limits were extended to include the lake's residents.

The south shore is dominated by the lake's largest city, South Lake Tahoe, California, which adjoins the town of Stateline, Nevada, while Tahoe City, California, is located on the lake's northwest shore.