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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.
The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminutive suffix.
Other explorers in the region incorrectly assumed that the lake's name was spelled ' heart ' because of its shape.
" 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.

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The lake's area is of surface water.
The lake's average depth is 47 fathoms 1 foot ( 283 ft ; 86 m ), with a maximum depth of 133 fathoms 4 feet ( 802 ft ; 244 m ).
The lake's primary source is the Niagara River, draining Lake Erie, with the St. Lawrence River serving as the outlet.
The lake's average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet ( 279 ft ; 85 m ), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet ( 923 ft ; 281 m ).
The lake's area is 17, 891 km² ( excluding the islands ).
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.
The lake's average depth is 195 feet ( 59 m ), while the maximum depth is 750 feet ( 229 m ).
Stansbury, Carrington, and Hat Islands are extensions of the Stansbury mountain range, and Strongs Knob is an extension of the Lakeside Mountains which run along the lake's western shore.
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 the two bays that receive most of the lake's fresh water inflows, Bear River Bay and Farmington Bay, the diversity of organisms is much higher.
The extremely high methyl mercury concentrations have been only in the lake's anoxic deep brine layer ( monimolimnion ) below a depth of 20 ' ( 6 m ), but concentrations are also moderately high up in the water column where there is oxygen to support brine shrimp and brine flies.
The lake's north arm contains deposits of oil, but it is of poor quality and it is not economically feasible to extract and purify it.
Over half of the lake's area is taken up by its many small islands ( including Bogomerom archipelago ), reedbeds and mud banks, and a belt of swampland across the middle divides the northern and southern halves while the shorelines are largely composed of marshes.
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.
Along with the conflicts that involve the countries, violence is increasing among the lake's dwellers.
The lake's water is purified and fed into Zurich's water system ; it is potable.
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.
The largest stream flowing into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on the lake's western shore.
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.

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