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Lake of Menteith The Lake of Menteith (Scottish Gaelic "Loch Innis MoCholmaig"), or, until the 20th century, the Loch of Menteith, is a loch in Scotland, located on the Flanders Moss, the flood plain of the upper reaches of the rivers Forth and Teith, upstream of Stirling.
Lake of Steam Lake of Steam is a region in the fictional continent of Faerûn in the setting Forgotten Realms. Despite its name, Lake of Steam is a quasi-inner sea connected to the Shining Sea in much the same way as the Black Sea is to the Mediterranean Sea is on Earth.
Lake of the Hirsel The Lake of the Hirsel or Hirsel Lake is an artificial body of water near Coldstream in Berwickshire in Scotland. It is set in the grounds of The Hirsel, home of the Home family and of the late Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
Lake of the Isles Lake of the Isles is a lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota connected to Cedar Lake and Lake Calhoun. It is home to winter ice skating and hockey, as well as a New Year's Eve celebration featuring roasted marshmallows and hot chocolate.
Lake of the Ozarks The Lake of the Ozarks is a large man-made reservoir created by impounding the Osage River in central Missouri in the northern part of The Ozarks. In addition, three smaller tributaries of the Osage which were also impounded include the Niangua River, the Grand Glaize River, and Gravois Creek.
Lake of the Woods (California) The Lake of the Woods is a large backcountry lake in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, to the west of Lake Tahoe in the Desolation Wilderness. It can be reached by hiking west out of the Glen Alpine Springs Trailhead or north out of the Twin Bridges Trailhead.
Lake of the Woods (subdivision) Lake of the Woods is a subdivision of approximately 400 homes in northern Peoria County, Illinois, between the western bluff of the Illinois River valley and Illinois Route 40, near the northern city limits of Peoria, Illinois. The center of the neighborhood is a man-made lake covering approximately 40 acres.
Lake of Tears Lake of Tears is a Swedish metal band. They are mostly known for the wide range of eclectic styles employed over the course of their releases - ranging from doom metal to psychedelic pop to classic rock to progressive metal- and the continuously high marks for songwriting and guitar work they receive from music critics.
Lake of Tunis The Lake of Tunis (, ) is a natural lagoon located between the Tunisian capital city of Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis (Mediterranean Sea). The lake covers a total of 37 square kilometres, about 14 square miles, in contrast to its size its depth is very shallow.
Lake O'Hara Lake O'Hara is the name of a lake and alpine area in Yoho National Park, in the province of British Columbia, on the western side fo the Great Divide with the province of Alberta and Banff National Park to the east. The lake and the valley are accessible through a bus servicethat is run by Parks Canada or by a 13km hike along a forestry road with an elevation gain of approximately 400m.
Lake Ohau Lake Ohau is a glacial lake in the Mackenzie Basin of New Zealand's South Island. It is fed by the Hopkins and Dobson rivers, which have their headwaters in the Southern Alps, and has its outflow in the Ohau River, which itself feeds into the Waitaki River hydroelectric project.
Lake Okareka Lake Okareka is one of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera, in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake), Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake), and Lake Okataina.
Lake Okataina Lake Okataina, is the northernmost and largest of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake), Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake), and Lake Okareka.
Lake Ontario kiyi The Lake Ontario Kiyi (Coregonus kiyi orientalis) is a fish which was last recorded from Lake Ontario, Canada in 1964. This subspecies was driven to extinction by commercial exploitation, predation and competition by introduced species.
Lake Ontario State Parkway The Lake Ontario State Parkway is a parkway along the south shore of Lake Ontario in New York, USA. The western end of the parkway is in Lakeside Beach State Park in Orleans County and the eastern end of the parkway is at Lake Avenue in the city of Rochester in Monroe County.
Lake Orion Baptist School Lake Orion Baptist School (LOBS) is a private independent Fundamental Baptist school, serving grades K-12. Founded in 2002, LOBS is a ministry of First Baptist Church of Lake Orion, Michigan, although students are accepted from any church loosely regarded as being of "like faith and practice".
Lake Orion High School Lake Orion High School is a public secondary institution located in Lake Orion, Michigan. The large campus (377,756 square feet) features a centralized "commons area", which serves as a distribution center to the "wings".
Lake Oswego School District The Lake Oswego School District is a school district in Lake Oswego, Oregon a suburb 10 miles south of Portland. The district comprises 13 primary and secondary schools with a total enrollment of 6,896 as of 2005.
Lake pigment A Lake pigment is a pigment manufactured by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, usually a metallic salt. Manufacturers and suppliers to artists and industry frequently omit the lake designation in the name.
Lake Pancharevo Lake Pancharevo (ПанчаревŃко езеро, Pancharevsko ezero or Яэовир Панчаревор, Pancharevo Reservoir) is an artificial lake in western Bulgaria, at the end of the Pancharevo Gorge of the Iskar River, located at 600 m above sea level between the Vitosha and Lozenska planina mountains. It is 3 km long and up to 700 m wide, reaching a depth of 30 m, and is situated 15 km southeast of the capital city of Sofia, where the Vitoshka Bistritsa flows into the Iskar.
Lake Paringa Lake Paringa is a small lake 30 kilometres north of Haast on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is set in rugged but picturesque terrain close to State Highway 6, six kilometres inland from the coast of the Tasman Sea.
Lake Park Estates, Dallas, Texas Lake Park Estates is a neighborhood in east Dallas, Texas (USA) on the north corner of the diagonal intersection of Buckner Road (Loop 12) and Garland Road (TX 78).Lake Highlands Area Improvement Association - Neighborhood & Homeowner Associations of Lake Highlands.
Lake Park High School Lake Park High School is a public four-year high school comprised of two campuses, one located in Roselle, Illinois (East Campus), and the other located in Medinah, Illinois, both western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is the part of Lake Park High School District 108.
Lake Parker Lake Parker is located in the northwest corner of Glover, Vermont in an area known as the Northeast Kingdom. This freshwater lake covers 239 acres and is just over one mile long and one-half mile wide; its maximum depth is 48 feet.
Lake Parramatta, New South Wales Lake Parramatta is the name of both the body of water that is the dammed Hunt Creek, and the nature reserve that surrounds it. The catchment area for the Lake is bounded by North Rocks Rd, Pennant Hills Rd and Hunt's Creek.
Lake Peigneur Lake Peigneur is located between New Iberia, Louisiana and Delcambre, Louisiana, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. The name Peigneur is Cajun French for "comber", relating to someone who works with wool in the process of weaving fabric, a highly regarded skill among early Cajuns.
Lake Pickering Lake Pickering was an extensive proglacial lake of the Devensian glacial. It filled the Vale of Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds, when the (largely Scandinavian) ice blocked the drainage, which had hitherto flowed north-eastwards past the site of Filey towards the Northern North Sea basin.
Lake Placid (Texas) Lake Placid is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River one half mile (1 km) southwest of the town of Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas, USA. The reservoir was formed in 1928 by the construction of a dam on the river.
Lake Placid Conference Center The Lake Placid Conference Center is located in Lake Placid, Florida, and is owned and operated by the South Florida District Church of the Nazarene. The Nazarene district purchased the property in October of 1996, for the purpose of providing a Christian place for Christian groups, and churches to come together to worship God in a camp type setting.
Lake Placid Handicap The Lake Placid Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses run at a distance of one and one-eighths miles on the turf at Saratoga Race Course. The race is open to three year old fillies and carries a purse of $150,000.
Lake Pleasant Regional Park Lake Pleasant Regional Park is a large outdoors recreation area straddling the Maricopa and Yavapai county border in Arizona. The park is located within the municipal boundaries of Peoria, Arizona and serves as a major recreation hub for the northwest Phoenix metropolitan area.
Lake Poerua Lake Poerua is a shallow lake located in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island roughly 13km southeast from Lake Brunner. A number of small streams flow into the lake, and the Poerua River flows from the lake into the Crooked River, which leads to Lake Brunner.
Lake Poets The Lake Poets all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary practice then known, although their works were uniformly disparaged by the Edinburgh Review.
Lake Point Tower Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on a promontory of the Lake Michigan lakefront in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive. It rises somewhat apart from the urban cluster of downtown Chicago in a composition that sets off and punctuates the skyline.
Lake Poteriteri Lake Poteriteri is the southernmost of the large lakes in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand's South Island. Only Lakes Hakapoua and Innes lie further south on the southern of New Zealand's two main islands.
Lake Powell Lake Powell is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. It was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the controversial Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular summer destination.
Lake Pukaki Lake Pukaki is the second-largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin (the others are Lakes Tekapo and Ohau). All three lakes were created by receding glaciers blocking their respective valleys with their terminal moraine.
Lake Quannapowitt Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, Massachusetts is a popular setting for walkers, joggers, bikers, and rollerbladers off route 128 in Essex County. It is the site of many organized races from 5Ks to Ultra Marathons.
Lake Quinsigamond Lake Quinsigamond (also Long Pond) is a body of water situated between the city of Worcester and the town of Shrewsbury in Worcester County in Massachusetts. It is 4 miles (6 km) long, between 50 and 85 feet (15 and 26 m) deep, and has a surface area of approximately 772 acres (3.
Lake retention time Lake retention time refers to measurements based on the volume of water in a lake and the average rate of outflow. It represents the amount of time it takes for a substance introduced into a lake to flow out of it again.
Lake Rabun Lake Rabun is a twisty 835-acre man made lake with 25 miles of shoreline located in the Northeastern corner of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the third lake in a five-lake series that follows the original course of the Tallulah River.
Lake Rakshastal Lake Rakshastal (officially: La'nga Co; Tibetan in Wylie transliteration: lag-ngar-mtsho; Chinese: 拉ć‚é”™, Pinyin: LÄ'áng Cuò) is a lake in Tibet, China, lying close to the west of Lake Manasarowar and Mount Kailash.
Lake Ramsey Lake Ramsey is a lake in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, located near the city's downtown core. Until 2001, Lake Ramsey was the world's largest lake located entirely within the boundaries of a single city, but when the Regional Municipality of Sudbury was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury, Lake Ramsey lost this status to the larger Lake Wanapitei, approximately 20 kilometres to the northeast.
Lake Rerewhakaaitu Lake Rerewhakaaitu is a small lake in northern New Zealand, located 30 kilometres to the east of Rotorua. It is immediately south of the active volcano Mount Tarawera, and its geography was substantially altered by a major eruption in 1886.
Lake Rhoda Lake Rhoda, on the eastern edge of Jefferson County, Colorado between Interstate 70 and West 44th Avenue, is a natural lake named after Rhoda Krasner by her father, Ben Krasner, who rescued Lakeside Amusement Park from bankruptcy during the Great Depression. She now owns the place today.
Lake Ridge Academy Lake Ridge Academy (LRA) is an independent K-12 school in North Ridgeville, Ohio, United States, founded in 1963. The only independent school on the west side of Cleveland, Lake Ridge is one of the smaller private schools in the Cleveland area, with approximately 435 students enrolled in the past year.
Lake River (Washington) Lake River is an approximately 10-mile long, typically slow-moving waterway that runs parallel to the Columbia River from Vancouver Lake (its source and namesake) to the south, to the northern tip of Bachelor Island to the north. Portions of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge border the length of the river, affording kayakers and other boat traffic excellent views of the Refuge's diverse wildlife populations.
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area of the National Park Service that encompasses the 130 mile long Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake between Grand Coulee Dam and Northport, Washington in eastern Washington state.
Lake Rosseau Lake Rosseau is located in Ontario. The lake is surrounded by many cottages some dating back the late 1800's The south end of the lake is in the Township of Muskoka Lakes, and the north end is in Seguin Township.
Lake Rotomahana Lake Rotomahana is a small lake in northern New Zealand, located 25 kilometres to the east of Rotorua. It is immediately southwest of the active volcano Mount Tarawera, and its geography was substantially altered by a major eruption in 1886.
Lake Roxburgh Lake Roxburgh is an artificial lake, created by the Roxburgh Dam, the earliest of the large hydroelectric projects in the southern South Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Clutha River, some 160 kilometres from Dunedin.
Lake sturgeon The lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) is a North American temperate freshwater fish, one of about 20 species of sturgeon. Like other sturgeons, this species is an evolutionarily ancient bottomfeeder with a partly cartilaginous skeleton and skin bearing rows of bony plates.
Lake Saint-Louis Lake Saint-Louis (in French Lac Saint-Louis) is a lake in extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, adjoining the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. One can actually see a line in the middle of the lake where the two different-coloured waters meet.
Lake Scutari Lake Scutari (Albanian: Liqeni i ShkodrĂ«s, Montenegrin: СкадарŃко Ńезеро, Skadarsko jezero) is a lake shared by Montenegro and Albania, and is also the largest lake in the Balkan Peninsula. It is named after the city Shkodra (Skadar, Scutari, İşkodra) in northern Albania.
Lake Seminole Lake Seminole is a man-made lake located in the southwest corner of Georgia along its border with Florida. The Chattahoochee and Flint rivers join in the lake, before flowing from the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, which impounds the lake, as the Apalachicola River.
Lake Sfânta Ana Lake Sfânta Ana (English: Lake Saint Ann, Hungarian: Szent Anna-tó ) is a crater lake located in the volcanic crater named "Puciosul" of the Eastern Carpathians, near Tuşnad (Tusnád) in the Natural Reserve of Mohoş, Harghita County, Romania.
Lake Shafer Lake Shafer is one of two man-made lakes located in the Twin Lakes area of Monticello, Indiana. It was created along with Lake Freeman in the 1920's when two dams were built outside of Monticello on the Tippecanoe River.
Lake Shala Lake Shala (also spelled Shalla) lies in Ethiopia south of Addis Ababa, in the Abijatta-Shalla National Park. According to the Statistical Abstract of Ethiopia for 1967/68, the lake is 28 kilometers long and 12 wide, with a surface area of 409 square kilometers.
Lake Sherburne Lake Sherburne is located along the entrance road to the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park in Montana. The lake is an artificial lake, formed by the Sherburne Dam, which impounded Swiftcurrent Creek and was constructed in 1919.
Lake Sherwood (West Virginia) Lake Sherwood is a 164-acre man-made reservoir located within the Lake Sherwood Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. The recreation area surrounding Lake Sherwood contains camping and picnicking facilities as well as a boating site and a beach for swimmers.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York to Chicago, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie and across northern Indiana. The line is still a major corridor, split at Cleveland by CSX and Norfolk Southern in 1998, and hosts Amtrak passenger trains.
Lake Shore Drive Lake Shore Drive (colloquially referred to as LSD) is a mostly freeway-standard expressway running parallel with and next to Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue (5200 North), Lake Shore Drive is designated as part of U.
Lake Shore Electric Railway The Lake Shore Electric Railway (LSE) was an interurban electric railway that ran between Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio. Through arrangements with connecting interurban lines; it also offered service to Fostoria and Lima, Ohio, and Detroit.
Lake Shore Limited The Lake Shore Limited is a daily 959-mile (1543 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. It travels on routes formerly traveled by the famed 20th Century Limited.
Lake Shore Towers Lake Shore Towers is a cluster of three towers which are under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The towers are part of a larger development and the company Al Nakheel is involved in their construction.
Lake Somerset Lake Somerset is an artificial lake created by the Somerset Dam on the Stanley River in Queensland. The dam was completed in 1959 and is the site of a small 4 kW hydroelectric power station, the dam also provides flood mitigation and water storage for the city of Brisbane.
Lake States Transportation Division Lake States Transportation Division (LSTD) was created to become the portion of the original Soo Line Railroad main and branches that the Wisconsin Central eventually purchased. When Soo Line acquired Milwaukee Road (CMSTP&P) in 1985 it formed LSTD in 1986 to largely acquire responsibility to operate the original Forest Park, Illinois, to Withrow, Minnesota, (Minneapolis) main line, the section of original track from Withrow to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, the Argonne to Neenah section of track and certain Milwaukee Road properties between Green Bay and Milwaukee in the general territory.
Lake Storm "Aphid" The October 2006 Buffalo storm, also known as Lake Storm "Aphid", the October Surprise Storm and the Columbus Day Massacre, among other monikers , was the National Weather Service's name for the unusual early-season lake effect snow storm that hit the Buffalo, New York area from the night of October 12 through the morning of October 13, 2006.
Lake Street (Minneapolis) Lake Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in Minneapolis, Minnesota which is located between 29th and 31st Streets in south Minneapolis. It was named such because it runs through the "Chain of Lakes" area on the west side of town and passes over a small channel linking Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles.
Lake Strom Thurmond Lake Strom Thurmond , also known as Clarks Hill Lake in Georgia, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the Savannah River Basin. It was built between 1946 and 1954 by the Army Corps of Engineers at the confluence of the Little River and Savannah River.
Lake Sumner Lake Sumner, Hokakura in MÄori language, is a lake situated 100 km northwest of Christchurch, Canterbury. The lake is located in the Lake Sumner Forest Park; the Hurunui river and several other lakes (Loch Katrine, Lake Sheppard, Lake Taylor and Lake Mason) also lie within the park.
Lake Sunapee Lake Sunapee is located within Sullivan County and Merrimack County in western New Hampshire, the United States. There are 800 ponds and lakes in New Hampshire, and Lake Sunapee is the fifth-largest lake located entirely in New Hampshire.
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was the first rail link between the Twin Cities and Duluth and came into existence in 1863 when financier Jay Cooke selected Duluth as the northern end of a new railroad. Lyman Dayton, a local businessman put up $10,000 of his own money to do the original surveying work and served as the railroad's president until his death in 1865.
Lake Superior Sounder The Lake Superior Sounder is a weekly newspaper published in Ashland, WI. Unlike the other Ashland newspaper (The Daily Press), The Sounder focuses less on hard news, and more on the leisure aspects of life in northern Wisconsin.
Lake Superior State Park Lake Superior State Park is a state park located on a small lake, Lake Superior, in the Town of Bethel in Sullivan County, New York. The park is operated by the Sullivan County Parks Department under license from the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Lake tanker Lake Tankers were small, (about 6,000 ton), specially designed ships that carried the crude oil, pumped from beneath Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, to the three off-shore refineries located on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao. The entire operation of these refineries depended on the crude from Lake Maracaibo, and a fleet of these little tankers carried the crude from Lake Maracaibo, through the shallow cannel between Lake Maracaibo and the Caribbean Sea, to Aruba and Curacao, Netherlands West Indies.
Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is a federally protected area which lies within a unique Sierra Nevada geologic basin, along the border of California and Nevada. It encompasses over 150,000 acres (600 km²) of National Forest lands, and ranges in altitude above sea level from 6,225 feet at lake level to 10,881 feet at Freel Peak, overlooking the City of South Lake Tahoe, California.
Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company The Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company was a 16 mile narrow gauge California railroad that ran from a connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Truckee, California to the waterfront at Lake Tahoe. The railroad was converted to standard gauge in 1926.
Lake Talquin Lake Talquin is a reservoir located on the Ochlockonee River between Leon County and Gadsden County in north Florida. The lake, located about 10 miles (15 km) west of Tallahassee, is south of Interstate 10 and bordered by State Road 20 on the east and State Road 267 on the west.
Lake Tarpon Lake Tarpon, the "Jewel of Pinellas County" is located about 10 miles west of Tampa in Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Lake Tarpon is the largest lake in Pinellas County with a surface area of 2,500 acres.
Lake Tekapo Lake Tekapo is largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau). It covers an area of 83 km², and is at an altitude of 700 metres above sea level.
Lake Tekapo (town) Lake Tekapo is a small town located at the southern end of the lake of the same name in the inland South Island of New Zealand. The lake is a popular tourist destination, and several resort hotels are located at the township.
Lake Temagami Lake Temagami is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay. The lake's name comes from Te-mee-ay-gaming, which means "deep water by the shore" in the Ojibwa language.
Lake Texana Lake Texana is a reservoir on the Navidad River, 8 miles (13 km) east of Edna, in Jackson County, Texas, USA. The reservoir is formed by the construction of Palmetto Bend Dam, begun in 1968 and completed in 1979.
Lake Texcoco Lake Texcoco was a lake in Mexico . It formerly occupied a great extension of the Valley of Mexico, forming part of system of five lakes, which included Lakes Xaltocan, Zumpango, Chalco and Xochimilco, all between 2,270 and 2,750 meters above sea level.
Lake Texoma Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, and the 12th largest Corps of Engineers lake. Its surface spreads over 89,000 acres (360 km²) at the confluence of the Red and Washita Rivers, straddling the Texas-Oklahoma border.
Lake Tharthar Lake Tharthar, known in Iraq as Buhayrat ath Tharthar (Arabic: بŘيرة الثرثار), is a lake situated 120 kilometers north of Baghdad between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. The lake is deep and nutrient poor; there is very little vegetation except for sparse shrubs, some dense patchs of growth and scattered Ziziphus trees.
Lake Tianchi Monster The Lake Tianchi Monster is lake monster reported to live in Lake Tianchi (ĺ¤©ć± , known as Lake Cheonji in Korea) located in the peak of Baekdu Mountain within the Changbai Mountains (Changbaek Mountains) encompassing Jilin Province of China and Ryanggang Province of North Korea. Some reports argue that there is not just a single monster, but an estimated 20 monsters.
Lake Tikitapu Lake Tikitapu or Blue Lake, is the smallest of four small lakes lying between Lake Rotorua and Lake Tarawera in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. The others are Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake), Lake Okareka, and Lake Okataina.
Lake Tillery Bridge The Lake Tillery Bridge is a bridge in North Carolina, the only crossing of the Pee-Dee-Yadkin River between Badin Lake and Norwood. The bridge carries traffic on NC Hwy 24, NC Hwy 27, and NC Hwy 73 across the river and Lake Tillery from Stanly County to Montgomery County, NC.
Lake Timiskaming Lake Timiskaming () is a large freshwater lake on the provincial border between Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The lake, which forms part of the Ottawa River, is 110 km in length and covers an area of almost 295 square kilometres.
Lake Tinaroo Lake Tinaroo, also known as Tinaroo Dam, is a man-made reservoir on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. It was constructed between 1953 and 1958 on the Barron River close to Lake Barrine and Lake Eacham.
Lake Tisza Lake Tisza (Hungarian: Tisza-tĂł), also known as Kisköre Reservoir (Hungarian: Kiskörei-vĂztározĂł), is the largest artificial lake in Hungary. It is located at the southeastern edge of Heves county, next to counties Borsod-AbaĂşj-ZemplĂ©n, HajdĂş-Bihar and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok.
Lake Traverse Indian Reservation The Lake Traverse Indian Reservation is the homeland of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a branch of the Sioux group of Native Americans. The reservation is located in parts of five counties in extreme northeastern South Dakota and parts of two counties in southeastern North Dakota, USA.
Lake Travis Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1942 by the construction of Mansfield Dam on the western edge of Austin, Texas by the Lower Colorado River Authority.
Lake Tugalo Lake Tugalo is a 597-acre man made lake with 18 miles of shoreline located in the northeastern Georgia in Habersham and Rabun counties, but also lies partially in Oconee County, South Carolina. It is the fifth lake in a five-lake series created by hydroelectric dams operated by Georgia Power that follows the original course of the Tallulah River.
Lake Tuz Lake Tuz (Turkish: Tuz Gölü meaning Salt Lake) is the second biggest lake in Turkey, located in central Anatolian region, 105 km NE of Konya and 150 km SSE of Ankara (). For most of the year, this very shallow (1-2 m) and saline lake has an area of 1,500 km².
Lake Uluabat Lake Uluabat (Uluabat Gölü), also called Ulubat Gölü or Apolyont Gölü, is the name of a freshwater lake in the vicinity of Bursa, Turkey. It is a large lake, covering an area of between 135 and 160 km², depending on the water level, but it is shallow, being only 3 m.
Lake Umbagog Lake Umbagog is a wilderness lake located in Coös County, New Hampshire and Oxford County, Maine. It is one of the most pristine lakes in the state of New Hampshire and lies near Errol, New Hampshire and the Thirteen Mile Woods Scenic Area along the border with Maine.
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