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 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.

A Viking ship was found on the lake's bottom on May 6, 2009.

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.

When it became apparent in 1756 that the fort was too far to the west of the lake, the French constructed an additional redoubt to the east to enable cannon to cover the lake's narrows.

A standard for mimicking the old rate of outflow called the " agreed curve " was established, setting the maximum flow rate at 300 to 1, 700 cubic metres per second ( 392 – 2, 224 cu yd / sec ) depending on the lake's water level.

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.

" The lake's clubhouse was what is now the residence at Lakeview and Edgecliff ; a structure at Lakeview and Jefferson is recalled as a roadhouse.

It was claimed without evidence that the lake is one of only a few lakes in the Chicago area that to be suitable to hold such events because of the lake's length, width, and shape.

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.

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.

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 ).

At long and 1, 809 tons Inca was the lake's largest ship thus far.

The new compromise level also meant that the lake's elevation was below Jordan River's stream bed.

Floating post office service was started on Lake Winnipesaukee in 1892, and currently delivers mail daily to eight of the lake's islands between June and September.

During the Soviet period, the Soviet Navy operated an extensive facility at the lake's eastern end, where submarine and torpedo technology was evaluated.

The lake's existence was the subject of intense discussion among archaeologists in the 20th century.

The creature in Lake Champlain was ostensibly given in 1609 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Québec and the lake's namesake, who is supposed to have been the first white man to record spotting " Champ " as he was fighting the Iroquois on the bank of the lake.

Historically, runoff from the high precipitation in the lake's watershed ( nearly twice the 35 inches that Seattle gets each year ) was absorbed by the surrounding forests.

Originally fed by the River Westbourne in the 1730s, the lake's water was then pumped from the Thames in the 1830s.

The lake's hot, acidic water significantly accelerated the melting of the ice ; this effect was confirmed by the large amounts of sulfates and chlorides found in the lahar flow.

The native Clear Lake hitch, Lavinia exilicauda, was once so abundant that millions of hitch clogged the lake's feeder streams in dry months.

Being of firmer ground, the area east of the main plaza was built up first, with the lake's waters up against the walls of a number of these constructions.

In 2008, a daggerboard ship was found in Lake Ontario, using deep scan sonar equipment off the lake's southern shore, the only one known to have been found in the Great Lakes.