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Lake Winnipesaukee (/ ˌ w ɪ n ɪ p ə ˈ s ɔː k i /) is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located in the Lakes Region at the foothills of the White Mountains.It is approximately 21 miles (34 km) long (northwest-southeast) and from 1 to 9 miles (1.6 to 14.5 km) wide (northeast-southwest), covering 69 square miles (179 km 2)—71 square miles (184 km 2) when Paugus Bay is ...
Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 Lake Champlain: New York–Vermont–Quebec: 490 sq mi 1,269 km ...
This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km 3, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration. Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates.
Paugus Bay is a 1,227-acre (4.97 km 2) [1] water body located in Belknap County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, United States, in the city of Laconia.A short channel at its north end connects it with Lake Winnipesaukee in the village of Weirs Beach, and a dam on its southern end separates it from Opechee Bay in the village of Lakeport.
That paper and another published last month in the Journal of Climate find that sea levels along the Gulf Coast and the southern Atlantic Coast have risen an average of 1 centimeter per year since ...
The Wentworth-Crescent watershed is a sub-watershed of the Lake Winnipesaukee watershed and the greater Merrimack River watershed. The three major water bodies, Sargents Pond, Crescent Lake, and Lake Wentworth, and 11 year-round tributaries are included in the 37-square-mile (96 km 2) sub-watershed, containing over 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of surface water, 617 acres (2.50 km 2) of wetlands, and ...
An empty runaway boat speeding in circles on New Hampshire’s largest lake was brought safely to a stop by a teenager who jumped aboard from a personal watercraft. Rich Bono, who captured the ...
It is bounded in the southwest by Lake Winnisquam, and by Lake Winnipesaukee in the northeast. Laconia lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed. [17] The highest point in Laconia is a 960-foot (290 m) hill in the northern part of the city, west of Paugus Bay's Pickerel Cove and just east of Route 106.