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North Lakes is located northeast of Wasilla and west of Palmer; the CDP name refers to a chain of lakes in the community. It is bordered to the south by the South Lakes CDP. According to the United States Census Bureau , the North Lakes CDP has a total area of 17.2 square miles (44.6 km 2 ), of which 15.5 square miles (40.1 km 2 ) are land and ...
Map of the Great Lakes, Great Lakes Waterway, St. Lawrence Seaway depicting the entire length. Photograph of, closest to farthest, Lakes Ontario, Erie and Huron (North is to the right) plus the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, near Lake Ontario, June 14, 2012, taken aboard the International Space Station, with lake names added
Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...
The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada. It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. [1]
Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydro-logical continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.
North Lakes is situated in the Yugarabul traditional Indigenous Australian country. [6]In the 1930s near Kinsellas Road, was the former Kinsellas Dairy Farm. It was when in 1928, the Kinsellas brothers secured 405 hectares of land for dairy farming.
Alaska has about 3,197 officially named natural lakes, [1] more than 409,000 natural lakes at least one hectare or bigger, [2] approximately 67 named artificial reservoirs, [3] and 167 named dams. [4] For named artificial reservoirs and dams, see the List of dams and reservoirs in Alaska. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some ...
Lake Agassiz (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə s i / AG-ə-see) was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period.