Lakes
- Lake Superior, Canada and the United States 47°45′N 87°30′W / 47.75°N 87.5°W / 47.75; -87.5 (Lake Superior) — most voluminous lake in Western Hemisphere at 11,600 km3 (2,800 cubic miles)
- Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada 61°40′N 114°00′W / 61.667°N 114°W / 61.667; -114 (Great Slave Lake) — deepest lake in Western Hemisphere at 614 m (2,014 feet)
- Lake Michigan–Huron, Canada and the United States 45°49′N 84°45′W / 45.817°N 84.75°W / 45.817; -84.75 (Lake Michigan–Huron) — most extensive lake in Western Hemisphere and the most extensive fresh water lake on Earth at 117,702 km2 (45,445 square miles)
- Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada 66°30′N 70°50′W / 66.5°N 70.833°W / 66.5; -70.833 (Nettilling Lake) — most extensive lake on an island on Earth at 5,066 km2 (1,956 square miles)
- Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island in Lake Michigan–Huron, Ontario, Canada 45°46′42″N 81°59′30″W / 45.77833°N 81.99167°W / 45.77833; -81.99167 (Lake Manitou) — most extensive lake on an island in a lake on Earth at 104 km2 (40 square miles)
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Famous quotes containing the word lakes:
“I walk toward one of our ponds; but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base? We walk to lakes to see our serenity reflected in them; when we are not serene, we go not to them. Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk. My thoughts are murder to the State, and involuntarily go plotting against her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Such were the first rude beginnings of a town. They spoke of the practicability of a winter road to the Moosehead Carry, which would not cost much, and would connect them with steam and staging and all the busy world. I almost doubted if the lake would be there,—the self-same lake,—preserve its form and identity, when the shores should be cleared and settled; as if these lakes and streams which explorers report never awaited the advent of the citizen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)