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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2013, 04:51:56 AM »
04. Lake Huron



Countries with shoreline — Canada, United States
Area — 59,600 km2 (23,000 sq mi)
Length — 332 km (206 mi)
Maximum depth — 229 m (751 ft)
Water volume — 3,540 km3 (850 cu mi)

Lake Huron (French: Lac Huron) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, it comprises the easterly portion of Lake Michigan–Huron, having the same surface elevation as its westerly counterpart, to which it is connected by the wide Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States. The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region. The huronian glaciation was named due to evidence collected from Lake Huron region.
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2013, 04:52:07 AM »
03. Lake Victoria



Countries with shoreline — Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
Area — 69,485 km2 (26,828 sq mi)
Length — 322 km (200 mi)
Maximum depth — 84 m (276 ft)
Water volume — 2,750 km3 (660 cu mi)

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to discover this lake.

With a surface area of 68,800 square kilometres (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake by area, and it is the largest tropical lake in the world. Lake Victoria is the world's 2nd largest freshwater lake by surface area; only Lake Superior in North America is larger. In terms of its volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth largest continental lake, and it contains about 2,750 cubic kilometers (2.2 billion acre-feet) of water.

Lake Victoria receives its water primarily from direct precipitation and thousands of small streams. The largest stream flowing into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on the lake's western shore. Two rivers leave the lake, the White Nile (known as the "Victoria Nile" as it leaves the lake), flows out at Jinja, Uganda on the lake's north shore, and the Katonga River flows out at Lukaya on the western shore connecting the lake to Lake George.

Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa and has a maximum depth of 84 m (276 ft) and an average depth of 40 m (130 ft).[3] Its catchment area covers 184,000 square kilometers (71,040 sq mi). The lake has a shoreline of 4,828 km (3,000 mi), with islands constituting 3.7% of this length, and is divided among three countries: Kenya (6% or 4,100 km2 or 1,600 sq mi), Uganda (45% or 31,000 km2 or 12,000 sq mi) and Tanzania (49% or 33,700 km2 or 13,000 sq mi).
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2013, 04:52:19 AM »
02. Lake Superior



Countries with shoreline — Canada, United States
Area — 82,414 km2 (31,820 sq mi)
Length — 616 km (383 mi)
Maximum depth — 406 m (1,332 ft)
Water volume — 12,100 km3 (2,900 cu mi)

Lake Superior (French: Lac Supérieur) is the largest of the five traditionally demarcated Great Lakes of North America. The lake is bounded by Ontario and Minnesota to the north and west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. It is generally considered the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. It is the world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume.   

The Caspian Sea is often regarded as the world's largest lake, but it contains an oceanic basin (contiguous with the world ocean until 11 million years ago) rather than being entirely over continental crust
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2013, 04:52:28 AM »
01. Caspian Sea



Countries with shoreline — Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran
Area — 371,000 km2 (143,000 sq mi)
Length — 1,199 km (745 mi)
Maximum depth — 1,025 m (3,363 ft)
Water volume — 78,200 km3 (18,800 cu mi)

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,200 sq mi) (not including Garabogazköl Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km3 (18,800 cu mi). It is in an endorheic basin (it has no outflows) and is bounded to the northwest by Russia, to the west by Azerbaijan, to the south by Iran, to the southeast by Turkmenistan, and to the northeast by Kazakhstan.

The ancient inhabitants of its coast perceived the Caspian Sea as an ocean, probably because of its saltiness and seeming boundlessness. It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most seawater.
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