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Sharbot Lake

Being situated in the Land O'Lakes Tourist Region and surrounded by many lakes that are used for outdoor recreation, Sharbot Lake has tourist-oriented shops and accommodations.


Alakol District

Parts of its eastern border (where the district borders on East Kazakhstan Province) run through the chain of lakes - Lakes Sasykkol, Koshkarkol, Alakol, and Zhalanashkol.

Albanvale, Victoria

Due to the recent development of the Cairnlea and Burnside estates, on the southern and eastern borders of Albanvale, native species of frogs have taken advantage and have taken up residence in the new wetlands and lakes.

Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Aquarama

SS Aquarama, a passenger ship that operated on the Great Lakes.

Ashford, Connecticut

Ashford is also home to several lakes and ponds, notably Knowlton Pond, Rychlings Pond, Halls Pond, Poole Pond, Ashford Lake, Lake Chaffee, and Morey Pond.

Beeliar

Beeliar Wetlands, two chains of lakes and wetlands running north-south through the southern suburbs of Perth.

Bernie Maher

He holds coaching and instructor qualifications for the Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors (AAPGAI), the American Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) and Advanced Professional Game Angling Qualifications (APGAI) in Trout and Salmon and offers private and group tuition at Press Manor Fishing Lakes, the complex of Trout, Coarse and Carp lakes he owns in Ashover (near Chesterfield and Matlock).

Busbridge

and Philip Carteret Webb and Chauncy Hare Townshend, the government lawyer/antiquarian and poet respectively owned its main estate, Busbridge House, the Busbridge Lakes element of which is a private landscape garden and woodland that hosts a wide range of waterfowl.

Bygdin

The Vinsteråni river runs out Bygdin, passes through Vinstervatna and Vinstra lakes and flows into the Gudbrandsdalslågen river.

Cheetham and Altona Important Bird Area

The IBA includes the undeveloped coast between Williamstown and Seaholme, including the Jawbone Reserve, Altona Coastal Park, Rowden's Swamp, the Cheetham Wetlands, Truganina Swamp, with the Spectacle Lakes complex and RAAF Lake of Point Cook Coastal Park.

Chennai MetroWater Supply and Sewage Board

Chennai has fresh water reservoirs/lakes namely Poondi, Sholavaram, Red Hills, Chembarambakkam, Veeranam to cater the daily needs of water for chennai area.

Clearwater Wilderness

Old-growth forests of Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock and Western Red Cedar, reachable by hiking trails, are nourished by many streams and eight small lakes, including Summit Lake.

Columbia Basin Project

Ice blocked the Columbia River near the north end of Grand Coulee, creating glacial lakes Columbia and Spokane.

Crescent City, Florida

The city is located on two lakes and is part of the Palatka Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Dragon Lake

Drakolimni, the name of several alpine or sub-alpine lakes in the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece

Dytiscus latissimus

It is an aquatic species and it inhabits in dense vegetation, mainly of Carex and Equisetum, at the edges of lakes or in non-flowing waters and deep ponds.

Francis Parkman Prize

1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Francis Patrick Dwyer

In that year he was awarded the Doctor of Science from the University of Sydney for his thesis entitled: 'The Diazoamino Compounds; their Metallic Salts and Metallic Hydroxide Lakes'.

Geography of Kyrgyzstan

The second- and third-largest lakes, Songköl and Chatyr-Köl (the latter of which also is saline), are located in the Naryn River Basin.

George and Ashley Abraham

M. J. B. Baddeley - a leading writer of a Lakes guidebook in the older text-based style

Hatchet Lake

Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia - one of several lakes and a community in Nova Scotia

Hays Canyon Range

The Surprise Valley with its alkali lakes and the Warner Mountains lie to the west.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Imperial Shag

The Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) is a black and white cormorant native to many subantarctic islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and southern South America, primarily in rocky coastal regions, but locally also at large inland lakes.

Indiana State Road 13

This was part of the route that Eastern settlers, having crossed the lakes to Detroit, used after they disembarked to travel south into Indiana.

John H. Leims

He left college in 1941 following his marriage, and worked subsequently for the Standard Oil Company; the Paschen Construction Company; the Naval Station at Great Lakes, Illinois, and the Austin Construction Company.

Kanatak

Kanatak Lake (or Kanata Lakes), a neighbourhood officially referred to as Marchwood-Lakeside within the northern section of Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

Kawartha lakes

Kawartha Lakes - a city in central Ontario, named for the lakes, and encompassing several of them.

Lagunas de Ruidera

In the waters of the lakes there are also endemic Iberian fishes like the Rutilus lemmingii, Luciobarbus guiraonis, Iberian Barbel, Luciobarbus microcephalus, Squalius pyrenaicus, as well as introduced species, like the Common carp, Northern pike, Largemouth bass and Gambusia holbrooki.

Lake Grace South

It is one of four lakes in the area comprising the Lake Grace System, a DIWA-listed wetland of national importance.

Leaf Hills Moraines

The name of this range of hills is translated from the Ojibwe Gaaskibag-wajiwan, which was interpreted by Gilfillan as “Rustling Leaf Mountains.” The name is also shared by Leaf Mountain Township, the two Leaf Lakes ("Gaaskibag-wajiwi-zaaga'iganan"), and the Leaf River ("Gaaskibag-wajiwi-ziibi"), all named for the hills.

Lough Erne

The lakes are widened sections of the River Erne, which flows north and then curves west into the Atlantic.

Manny Díaz, Jr.

Díaz then began working as a teacher and a coach at Miami Springs High School and Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School, and then became an assistant princiapl at Hialeah-Miami Lakes.

Marwan al-Shehhi

That day, Atta and Jarrah were together, about 30 miles to the north, visiting a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, to get Florida driver's licenses.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

Mukwonago, Wisconsin

The lakes lie midway along the Mukwonago River from its source springs to its meeting with the Fox River, which travels further southeast through Big Bend and beyond.

Nation Lakes

The Nation Lakes are a series of four lakes in the Nation River system of the Omineca Country of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

Later used by Army Corps of Engineers in the Great Lakes.

Palici

Their cult centered around three small lakes that emitted sulphurous vapors in the Palagonia plain, and as a result these twin brothers were associated with geysers and the underworld.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

The many tourist attractions in Rideau Lakes, including historic trails, the stone arch dam at Jones Falls, and the Rideau Waterway, are also an important part of the township's economy.

Rift Valley lakes

In addition to the cichlids, populations of Clariidae, Claroteidae, Mochokidae, Poeciliidae, Mastacembelidae, Centropomidae, Cyprinidae, Clupeidae and other fish families are found in these lakes.

Ry Municipality

Ry, also known as Ry Station, is located between the lakes of Gudensø, Juulsø and Knudsø along the Guden River (Gudenå).

Theo Colborn

From there she joined the Conservation Foundation in 1987 to provide scientific guidance for the 1990 book, Great Lakes, Great Legacy?

Tsunamis in lakes

The Otago Regional Council, responsible for the area, has recognised that in such an event, tsunamis could occur in both lakes but have yet to learn any more about it.

Überetsch

It lies south-west of Bolzano and is a known tourist destination, famous for its wines, castles and lakes (Kalterer See, Montiggler Seen).

Vendace

:*Coregonus vandesius, in lakes of Scotland and England; arguably the same species as Coregonus albula

Wenecja

Its picturesque location among three lakes (Biskupinskie, Weneckie, Skrzynka) resulted in its name alluding to the location of Italian Venice.

Yanchep National Park

The word Yanchep is derived from Yandjip or Yanget which is the aboriginal name for the local bulrush reed found fringing the lakes in the area.


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