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 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 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.

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 average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet ( 279 ft ; 85 m ), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet ( 923 ft ; 281 m ).

In an average year the lake covers an area of around, but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness.

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.

Where a major eruption has deposited a tephra dam across the lake's outlet, the dam may collapse after the lake has refilled and risen above the level of its normal outlet, the outrush of water causing a large lahar.

On the other hand, environmental activists are opposing the plant because it would be near Lake Natron, and it could possibly affect the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers.

The lake's high altitude, great depth, slow rate of refill and mountainous location in a turbulently volcanic area that has undergone changing climate have all given the lake a complex history of changing flow patterns, with its outflow to the sea apparently historically unusual: it has been described as ' practically endorheic ' for this reason.

Lake Sammamish is bordered by Marymoor Park at the lake's north end, Lake Sammamish State Park at its south end and East Lake Sammamish Trail.

As the lake and its shores became progressively incorporated into the Duchy of Milan they became the subject of political and territorial contention during the 15th century, and Lugano became the lake's main town.

The town of Bala sits at its northern end and the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway runs for several kilometres along the lake's southern shore.

However, the lake's level began dropping soon after and by July 2007, it had dropped more than 1. 2 metres to its all-time low of 2. 68 metres.

The lake's great depth and purity causes it to absorb all colors of visible light except blue, resulting in its characteristic indigo hue.

However, its placement on a sand bank fourteen feet above the lake's surface created a lens focal plane of.

The biodiversity of the phytoplankton is poor and its biomass is low, thus the lake's trophic level ranges from oligotrophic to mesotrophic.

In 2011 water withdrawals from Lake Meredith ceased, on 09 April 2012 the lake reached its all time low 29. 80 feet, and as of 16 April 2012 the lake's depth was 31. 37 feet with a volume of 24, 424 acre-feet ( 3. 1 % of capacity ).

By 1822, due to serious threat of malaria, the lake's water level was lowered after its outlet to the Seneca River was dredged and the low lying swampy area, located in what is now the northern end of downtown Syracuse, was drained.

The lake's greatest depth is 97 m. After the big earthquake in 2000, the lake began to diminish, and 20 % of its surface has since disappeared.