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Hudson Bay: 0.9 Beauvert Lake: Athabasca River: Arctic Ocean: 0.4 Beaver Lake: Beaver River: Hudson Bay: 33.1 Beaverhill Lake: North Saskatchewan River: Hudson Bay: 139: Beaverhill Natural Area is part of Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. Lac la Biche: Beaver River: Hudson Bay: 236 Big Lake: Sturgeon River: Hudson Bay: 21.4 Bistcho ...
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
The Thirty Thousand Islands are the world's largest freshwater archipelago, and are located mainly along the east side of Georgian Bay, part of the Great Lakes, in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] Biosphere map of Georgian Bay. UNESCO designated the area in 2004 as the Georgian Bay Littoral (also called the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve). It is an ...
Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey.It is approximately 782 square miles (2,030 km 2) in area, [2] the bay's freshwater mixes for many miles with the saltwater of the Atlantic Ocean.
Chart of Florida Bay showing water depths and the shoals and islands that divide it into basins or lakes. Encompassing roughly one-third of Everglades National Park, [1] Florida Bay is variously stated to be 800 square miles (2,100 km 2), [2] or 850 square miles (2,200 km 2), [3] or 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2). [4]
Budle Bay; Druridge Bay; Whitley Bay; Tees Bay; Runswick Bay; Saltwick Bay; Robin Hood's Bay; Hayburn Wyke; Cloughton Wyke; Jackson's Bay (also known as Scalby Ness Sands) North Bay, Scarborough; South Bay, Scarborough; Cornelian Bay; Gristhorpe Bay; Filey Bay; Selwicks Bay; Bridlington Bay; The Wash; Hollesley Bay; Pegwell Bay; Rye Bay ...
[4] [5] It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian navigator, who, in 1728, was the first European to systematically explore it, sailing from the Pacific Ocean northward to the Arctic Ocean. [6]
The list of lakes, lochs, loughs and llyns of the United Kingdom is a link page for some large lakes of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), including lochs fully enclosed by land. Lakes in Scotland are called lochs, and in Northern Ireland loughs (pronounced the same way, i.e. (/lÉ’ç/)). In Wales a lake is ...