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Windermere or Lake Windermere [a] is a ribbon lake in Cumbria, England, and part of the Lake District. [5] It is the largest lake in England by length, area, and volume, but considerably smaller than the largest Scottish lochs and Northern Irish loughs. The lake is about 11 miles (18 km) in length and 1 mile (1.6 km) at its widest, has a ...
Dymaxion world map with the 15 largest lakes roughly to scale. This is a pair of lists of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately 3,000 square kilometres (1,200 sq mi), ranked by area, [1] [2] [3] excluding reservoirs and lagoons.
This list is restricted to open bodies of fresh-water over 5 ha in area, because of the difficulty in establishing what is a pond and what is a lake.. It excludes service reservoirs used within the water supply network for the storage of drinking water and excludes water bodies on industrial sites used exclusively for industrial purposes (works ponds).
The Lake District is a major sanctuary for the red squirrel and has the largest population in England (out of the estimated 140,000 red squirrels in the United Kingdom, compared with about 2.5 million grey squirrels). [41] The Lake District is home to a range of bird species, [42] and the RSPB maintain a reserve in Haweswater. [43]
This table includes the ten largest fresh water bodies by area. Lough Neagh is the largest water body in the UK by this measure, although Loch Ness is the largest by volume and contains nearly double the amount of water in all the lakes of England and Wales combined. [1] Loch Morar is the deepest of the UK's lakes and Loch Awe the longest.
Largest lake in Romania 33 Kubenskoye: Кубенское озеро Russia: 407 157: 34 Lough Neagh: Loch nEathach, Loch Neagh: Northern Ireland ( United Kingdom) 383 148: Largest lake in United Kingdom, largest lake on the island of Ireland 35 Sheksninskoye Russia: 380 150: 36 Garda: Lago di Garda Italy: 370 140: Largest lake in Italy 37 ...
[b] [26] [27] The Lake District includes England's highest peak, Scafell Pike, which rises to 978 m (3,209 ft), its largest lake, Windermere, and its deepest lake, Wastwater. [28] Northern England is one of the most treeless areas in Europe, and to combat this the government plans to plant over 50 million trees in a new Northern Forest. [29]
This list contains the lakes, tarns and reservoirs in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Only one body of water, Bassenthwaite Lake, is traditionally named a lake. [1] Larger bodies of water in the Lake District are generally named as mere or water, whilst smaller ones are denoted by tarn.