The Great Mere is now drained and forms a meadow, but would originally have been a large lake covering around, dammed by the Tiltyard causeway.

He claims that the accounts of loch monsters have changed over the ages, originally describing creatures with a horse-like appearance ; they claimed that the " kelpie " would come out of the lake and turn into a horse.

The word " Michigan " originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning " great water ".

Snorra Edda says that ' the inlets in the lake correspond to the headlands in Zealand '; since this is much more true of Lake Vänern, the myth was probably originally about Vänern, not Mälaren.

* Lacustrine plain, a plain that originally formed in a lacustrine environment, that is, as the bed of a lake.

Snorra Edda says that ' the inlets in the lake correspond to the headlands in Zealand '; since this is much more true of Lake Vänern, the myth was probably originally about Vänern, not Mälaren.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.

US Geological Survey and US Fish & Wildlife researchers, originally studying selenium levels in the lake, discovered some of the highest levels of methyl-mercury they had ever seen, at 25 nanograms per liter of water.

The Oosterschelde was originally to be dammed and turned into a fresh water lake, leading to the loss of the saltwater ecosystem and, consequently, the harvesting of oysters.

The Shamrock Lakes ( a group of six lakes ) were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was born in Konstanz ( Constance ), originally had his airships built in a floating airship hangar on the lake which could be aligned with the wind to support the difficult starting procedure.

A small man-made lake ( originally four separate lakes, some being filled in ), called the Legion Lake, exists on the west side of the village.

The small town consists of a group of six lakes that were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

That river's spirits reject it too, and the body is driven east into " Losania ", where it is plunged in the bay of the lake near Lucerne, near Mont Pilatus – originally Mons Pileatus or " cloud-capped ", as John Ruskin pointed out in Modern Painters — whence the uncorrupting corpse rises every Good Friday to sit on the bank and wash unavailing hands.

When the lake originally formed it was warm, but today it is frozen over for most of the year.

Fall River was and is unique for the fact that it has two large lakes ( originally one lake ) on the eastern part of the city which is higher in elevation, with a river emptying out of the ponds flowing two miles through the heart city emptying out into the deep bay / estuary in the west part of the city.

The village was platted with 299 lots, and included almost all of the land bordered by the lake on the north, Smith Street on the east, Potter Road on the South, and West Street ( which originally ran due north from the current Potter Road-US-31 intersection ) on the west.

The actual lake of Big Lake was originally part of the Missouri River.

At the southern end of the lake is a swimming pool and tennis complex originally called the " Marine Pool ", that is constructed to resemble the deck of an ocean liner.

* Crystal Lake ( originally " Turtle Lake " until developed as a resort in the 1930s ) – A small lake in the northwest corner of New Lisbon.

* Gilbert Lake – A small lake inside Gilbert Lake State Park, originally a natural lake but enlarged several times as used to power various industries over the years it opened as a state park in 1929, and became an important CCC encampment that included a steel firetower.

* Lake Ozonia – a lake by the east town line, inside the Adirondack Park, and originally called " Trout Lake.

:" numberless buildings erected in the very water, for the bed of the lake in this part is rock ; and they have built pleasure houses that are supported on columns of marble, rising up out of the water.

The lake has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supported up to 100, 000 breeding Banded Stilts during the major filling event of 1989.

A 318 km < sup > 2 </ sup > area of the lake and its surrounds has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it has supported over 1 % of the world populations of Blue-billed Ducks and Red-necked Avocets as well as populations of the biome-restricted Inland Dotterel, Bourke's Parrot, Slaty-backed Thornbill, Grey-headed Honeyeater, Black Honeyeater, Pied Honeyeater, Hall's Babbler, Chirruping Wedgebill and Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush.

The name Venezuela comes from the lake, when Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory " Little Venice " ( Pequeña Venecia ) or Venezuela.

An American force supported by a naval flotilla landed on the lake shore to the west, defeated the defending British force and captured the fort, town and dockyard.

60 years ago the western and northern shores of the lake were home to large herds of elephant, the Luapula floodplain supported herds of lechwe, and the Lusenga Plains National Park and Mweru Wantipa National Park were noted for Cape buffalo, a great variety of antelope and lion.

Rivers and lakes support different species therefore some fish were able to thrive in the lake but others could not be supported by its different environment.

The productive fishery is supported by huge numbers of baitfish, most notably alewives ( sawbellies ), and is a very popular lake with area fishermen.

The birds are essentially supported by plankton masses in the lake, which also feed the fish.

The pods are supported on four pipe columns, rising above the lake.

From around 1800 BCE until the 9th century the lake supported a thriving Tocharian culture.

The lake, and thus the park, are named for Congressman John H. Kerr, who supported the original lake project.

The lake initially supported a cold-water fishery, but due to industrialization the cold-water fishery was lost by 1890.

Prior to the 20th century, the lake was surrounded by widespread marshes and wetlands, which supported fish, birds and wildlife, as well as protecting water quality in the lake.

Mullets and Catfish are the major brackish water fish, which have supported sustenance fishing for the lake fishermen.

Based on an internationally supported pilot projects undertaken in Sri Lanka, considering that problems in Sri Lankan and Indian lake regions are similar, CReNIEO initiated the " Integrated Fisherfolk Development Project " for adoption in the Pulicat lagoon.

Stone age settlements, discovered along the shoreline of Lake Constance, document that the lake supported several dozen thriving communities of 50 – 100 individuals.

The upper stratifications of the lake most certainly supported a variety of organisms, but the bottom was subject to little disturbance by current, spawning a very anoxic environment.

Until recently the lake supported thousands of fisherfolk, near village Kot Lashari Bobak railway station, who depended on the freshwater fish they caught in the lake.

Prior to the construction of Derby Dam and the diversion of water from the Truckee River for irrigation, the lake supported a commercial fishery which was an even larger revenue source for the tribe.