Lake

A lake is a large body of water, usually fresh water, surrounded by land.

Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes. For examples (of saline lakes): the Great Salt Lake, but the Dead Sea. The largest "lake" in the world is the Caspian Sea, and the deepest is Lake Baikal in Siberia. The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre which is dry most of the time but become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall.

See List of lakes.

Finland is known as The Land of the Thousand Lakes and Minnesota is known as The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

See also: Pond, Lagoon, Physical geography.

Lake pigments are made by precipitating dye on an inert substance, such as calcium sulphate. Many lake pigments are fugitive, due to the nature of the dyes involved. Some common lake pigments are rose madder (made from a root) and carmine (made from a beetle).

Lake Aircraft was an aerospace manufacturer of amphibious aircraft; the corporation is now known as Sun Lake Aircraft.

Lake is also the name of several places in the United States of America:

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