The largest lake, the Lago de Ilopango, lies just to the east of the capital.

One of the well-known mountains here is Mount Parker, whose almost circular crater lake measures a mile and a quarter in diameter and lies 300 meters below its 2, 040-meter summit.

This lake, the largest and most ancient in Japan, lies near the city of Kyoto.

The city's downtown lies just north of Lake Sammamish ; residential areas lie north and west of the lake.

Before 1852, the Haarlemmermeer polder in which the airport lies was a large lake, in the shallow waters of which sudden violent storms could claim many ships.

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

Around the island Djurö, in the middle of the lake, lies the Djurö archipelago, which has been given national park status as Djurö National Park.

The only significant lake in Epirus is Lake Pamvotis, on whose shores lies the city of Ioannina, the region's largest and traditionally most important city.

The old town now lies submerged below the lake.

One strategically important place on the route lies at a narrows near the southern end of Lake Champlain, where Ticonderoga Creek, known in Colonial times as the La Chute River, enters the lake, carrying water from Lake George.

The Tugen Hills, an uplifted fault block of volcanic and metamorphic rocks, lies west of the lake.

Nearby lies the large lake of Ichkeul, a favored stop used by hundreds of thousands of migrating birds.

Lake Huron is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, by the narrow Straits of Mackinac, making them geologically and hydrologically the same body of water ( sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron and sometimes described as two ' lobes of the same lake ').

The lake lies in portions of five counties: Box Elder, Davis, Tooele, Weber, and Salt Lake.

In this deep trough lies Lake Malawi, the third-largest lake in Africa, comprising about 20 % of Malawi's area.

Situated at a height of 434 m ( 1, 424 ft ) above sea level, the lake is long and wide and lies between the mountain ridges Korbu and Al-tyntu, on the junction of Sailughem Mountains and Western Sayans.

The fault was first identified in Northern California by the UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco, the Laguna de San Andreas.

The Great Salt Lake in the west, which is surrounded by marshland and mudflats, lies at an average elevation of approximately, varying depending on the water level, which can lead to drastic changes in the lake size due to its shallowness.

Laketown lies at the southern edge of the lake.

The largest stream flowing into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on the lake's western shore.

alt = Lake Champlain lies in northeastern New York, and is a relatively narrow lake running north to south.

Patoka Lake is within the national forest ; the majority of the lake lies in Orange County, with parts extending into neighboring Dubois and Crawford counties.

It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Hippolytus of Rome pictures the underworld ( Hades ) as a place where the righteous dead, awaiting in the bosom of Abraham their resurrection, rejoice at their future prospect, while the unrighteous are tormented at the sight of the " lake of unquenchable fire " into which they are destined to be cast.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

[...] Thence the Britons retired to the river Thames at a point near where it empties into the ocean and at flood-tide forms a lake.

By this time the small lake ( Lady Pool on old maps ) at the end of Ladypool Road had been filled-in to create a park.

Piotr Dunin decided not to wait for the enemy and attacked first, setting infantry with crossbows at left, defended by cavalry between the tabor and the coast of the nearby lake of Rogoźnica.

Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

Fluctuations in both cause the lake to change dramatically in size, from 9, 800 square kilometers in the dry season to 25, 500 at the end of the rainy season.

At this point, the water pushes northward up the Tonle Sab and empties into the Tonle Sap, thereby increasing the size of the lake from about 2, 590 square kilometers to about 24, 605 square kilometers at the height of the flooding.

Gradual silting of the lake would seem to be occurring ; during low-water level, it is only about 1. 5 meters deep, while at flood stage it is between 10 and 15 meters deep.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

" 20: 10 Satan will join the Antichrist and the False Prophet, who were condemned to the lake of fire at the beginning of the Millennium.

The water level is regulated by the Mud Lock at the north end of the lake.

A large state marina and boat launch is located at the southern end of the lake in Ithaca ( Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, the largest inland marina in New York ).

The lake is the subject of local folklore ; a tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled ( though for only one day ).

Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.

The lowest points are along the lake shore at, while the highest point, at, is a landfill located in the Hegewisch community area on the city's far south side.

Total production of marine, river, and lake fisheries in 2003 was estimated at 222, 965 tons, all but 5, 000 tons from inland waters.