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The deepest area is oceanic rather than continental crust. However, it is generally regarded by geographers as a large endorheic salt lake. Of these registered lakes; 10 have a deepest point above the sea level. These are: Issyk-Kul, Crater Lake, Quesnel, Sarez, Toba, Tahoe, Kivu, Nahuel Huapi, Van and Poso.
These lakes vary in surface area and depth – with some being nearly 2,000 feet deep. Want to know the deepest lake in the U.S.? How does it compare to the deepest lake in the world?
Watch this video to discover the 15 deepest U.S. lakes and other fascinating facts about them. There are hundreds of thousands of natural and man-made lakes of all sizes and depths in the United ...
Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake, sometimes called the Portsmouth Pit, is the deepest lake completely within the state of Minnesota, USA. It has a depth of over 450 feet (137 m), according to the most recent Minnesota DNR data. Lake Superior, over 700 feet deep off the north shore of the state, is technically deeper.
Wazee Lake is a lake east of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in the town of Brockway, Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] The name "Wazee" means "tall pine" in the Ho-Chunk language. The artificial lake is the deepest lake within the state of Wisconsin , with a maximum depth of approximately 355 feet (108 m).
Find out more about all the Great Lakes. ... As for its depth, Lake Huron is 750 feet deep — say, about 750 Subway sandwiches below sea level. It holds 850 cubic miles of water.
At the present time, based on a comparison of average depths among the deepest lakes of the world, Crater Lake, OR is the deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere, and it ranks as the third deepest in the world (). Lakes Baikal and Tanganyika remain in first and second place, however.--Pkrnger 15:55, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
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