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Mountain Island Lake is a lake northwest of Charlotte, ... Full pond elevation is approximately 647.5 feet (197 m). The lake has around 3,281 acres ...
Mountain Island is an unincorporated community in eastern Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. [2] Not to be confused with the Charlotte neighborhood of the same name in Mecklenburg County. [3] [4] It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Mount Holly.
Thousand Island Lake is a large alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada, within the Ansel Adams Wilderness in eastern Madera County, California. The lake is named for the many small rocky islands that dot its surface. Theodore Solomons probably established the 'Thousand Island' name, as this appears on his 1896 map. John Muir called it by "Islet Lake ...
Lake Norman is an artificial fresh water lake in southwest North Carolina. The largest lake in the state, it was created between 1959 and 1964 [1] as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy. Located in Iredell County, 15 miles north of Charlotte, Lake Norman State Park boasts the region's popular mountain biking trail system.
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The lake has a surface area of approximately 13,443 acres (54.361 km 2) with 325 miles (523 km) of shoreline, and stretches from the Mountain Island Dam, south of Mountain Island Lake in North Carolina to the Wylie Dam on the south end of the lake. The average depth of the lake is just over 20 feet (6.1 m).
Cottonwood County's now-dry Mountain Lake was the site of Native American villages and encampments over the course of 3,000 years. The area has provided clues—some of the oldest evidence of human habitation in present-day Minnesota—about the lives of a group of people who remained relatively isolated from Upper Mississippi River trade networks.
Thousand Islands National Park (established 1904), formerly known as the St. Lawrence Islands National Park, is a Canadian National Park located on the 1000 Islands Parkway in the Thousand Islands Region of the Saint Lawrence River.