Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are five large lakes in east-central North America. They hold 21% of the world's surface fresh water. The five lakes are: Lake Superior...

The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift...

from the ocean, it is not a sea. Some lakes are very big, and people in the past sometimes called them seas. Lakes do not flow like rivers, but many have...

This is a list of colleges and universities in the Great Lakes Colleges Association: Albion College Allegheny College College of Wooster Denison University...

Lake Erie is one of the Great Lakes in North America. It is the second to the last in the Great Lake system before water flows into the St. Lawrence River...

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes in North America. It has a surface area of 22,300 square miles (58,000 square kilometers). It is 307 by 118...

America's Great Lakes. It is the world's third largest lake, and the world's largest freshwater lake (by area). Its outlet is the St. Marys River to Lake Huron...

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes in North America, but its maximum depth (802ft; 244m) is deeper than lake Erie's (210ft) and Lake Huron's...

flow to the ocean. It is one of the biggest endorheic lakes in the world. The lake is in the Great Basin, a large area of desert terrain covering parts...

deepest lakes in the world (up to 1,470 metres deep at Lake Tanganyika). Much of this area is inside national parks. The African Great Lakes are a series...

have fewer lakes that often are part of river systems. Their coastlines are smoother. These areas were carved more by erosion. Great Lakes Mackereth,...

of the Canadian Shield. The Great Slave Lake remains from a large post-glacial lake along with other lakes such as the Great Bear and Athabasca. The main...

Lake Huron is one of North America's five Great Lakes. It is the third one up from the mouth. Like Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior, it is also...

powerful snow squalls than strong shear. Lake-effect precipitation typically increases with elevation. In the Great Lakes region in North America, when cold...

Great Bear Lake is a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is the largest lake that is entirely inside Canada. It is the fourth largest lake in...

York State. It runs for 365 miles from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. It connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The State authorized it in 1808...

lakes, ordered by continent: International Lakes in Africa Lake Albert (Mobuto-Sese-Seko) Lake Chad Lake Edward Lake Kariba Lake Kivu Lake Mweru Lake...

Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"–the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868. Although Salt Lake...

The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الكبرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a saltwater lake in Egypt. Today, it is part of...

Great Lakes system. The St. Clair River brings water south from Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River, brings the water south from Lake St...