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WikiProject Lakes
ShortcutWP:LAKES
CategoryWikiProject Lakes
PortalimageLakes
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:LakesLakes
Parent
project(s)		Geography
Project banner template{{WikiProject Lakes}}
Userboxes{{User WikiProject Lakes}}
{{User WP Lakes}}
Has goals?Yes
AssessmentWikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Assessment
Popular pagesWikipedia:WikiProject Lakes/Popular pages
Lakes articles by quality and importance
QualityImportance
TopHighMidLowNA???Total
FA246
FL11
GA1653345
B927249427181
C55997422124707
Start7852202,66111,4824,456
Stub1281525,80015,51211,494
List7136123276267611
Category2,5702,570
Disambig137137
File143143
Portal11
Project4343
Redirect7521,1191,178
Template166166
Other11415
Assessed303416309,3444,1977,21221,754
Total303416309,3444,1977,21221,754
WikiWork factors (?)ω =94,705Ω = 5.61

ThisWikiProject Lakes aims to consolidate and unify pages relating tolakes,lochs,reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water around the world. This page includesguidelines and a number of resources that can be used to achieve our goal. All editors are welcome to join this project; if you wish to participate, please add yourself to thelist of participants below.

Title

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WikiProject Lakes

Scope

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ThisWikiProject aims primarily to describe the Earth'slakes,lochs,reservoirs, and similar inland bodies of water in a consistent and complete fashion and to add the{{Infobox body of water}} template to each lake oriented article.

Guidelines

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Please remember that these are only guidelines and may not apply in every situation. However, the{{Infobox body of water}} template should be included on every lake oriented article. In addition, please add the{{WikiProject Lakes}} project banner to the talk page of any lake articles that you may encounter (seetemplates below), allowing other editors to find this project and adding the talk page toCategory:WikiProject Lakes.

Notability

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To start, seeWP:GNG and Notability (geographic features) most specifically the named natural features section:WP:GEOLAND.

New Page vs New Section

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The guidelines to read first:WP:PAGEDECIDE.

Related WikiProjects

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Parentage

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The parent of this project isWikiProject Geography.

Collaborations

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Currently proposed & under consideration:Reservoir Task force with WikiProject Dams.

Related WikiProjects

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Complementary projects:

Projects covering other geographical features:

Open tasks

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Backlog Dashboard

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Backlog progress overview

Lakes needing attention

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See also:Category:Lakes articles needing attention
See also:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Assessment § Requesting_an_assessment

(Please flag an article by adding attention=yes on the Wikiproject Lakes template as you come across them. This will add them to theCategory:Lakes articles needing attention (57). Leave a comment on the article talk page specifying the attention is needed. For articles under active development needing attention there is the table below as added visibility.)

Lakes needing immediate attention

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Apply the attention parameter as stated above and add to the table below. The table below currently contains the legacy articles which were posted prior to converting to the table, but not all have comments which specify an actionable comment. Those without an actionable comment may be removed if how they need to be brought up-to-spec is not identifiable or will be switched to the attention=yes flag.

A comment should be actionable and not just "expand" or "stub", but provide direction of why that article should be a priority over others. There are many articles that are stubs and need expansion generally.

Table of articles needing specific attention or project expertise
ArticleActionable CommentDate PostedClaimed Status (no / yes - username)
Rivers Lakeinappropriate title based on Reddit04-24-2022fettlemap
O'Higgins/San Martín Lake(images, more detail on recent bathymetric survey)Legacy post
Alice Lake (Sawtooth Wilderness)(Please help verify GNIS is correct)Legacy post
PulvermaarMaar in Germany (Too technical - could use attention to make more understandable)Legacy post
Gorg Blau and counterpartCúberlanguage needs work, but would be interesting to build on Gorg Blau given art historyLegacy post

Cleanup listing

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A range of tasks are available atCleanup listing.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See alsothe tool's wiki page andthe index of WikiProjects.

Complementary Geo Templates

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WikiProject Articles specifically around bodies of water with geographic coordinate should also make sure that the talk page also includes the WikiProject for that geographic area if it is in the scope for the project. For example Lake Michigan's talk page should include all the WikiProject for the states bordering the lake (WikiProject Illinois, WikiProject Indiana, WikiProject Michigan, and Wikiproject Wisconsin). Dual tagging lakes and local region helps to provide visibility to the article for maintenance and development. Additionally this may encourage topical and local expertise in assessment the article importance and identification of locally or topically known resources.

You can view aPetScan configuration of current projects with just WikiProject Lakes and no regional WikiProject template. It is possible new region templates have been added or missed, please add them to the "Templates&links" tab at the end of the "Has none of these templates:" list and update the PSID for the link or post to the talk with the missing WikiProject templates for PetScan.

Adding Infoboxes

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Lake articles in need of an infobox:Category:Lakes articles needing infoboxes (74)

Adding photos

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Find a photo with a compatible license or donate a photo you have taken and help with thebacklog.Finding photo tutorial.



Lake Nyos –Galleries

WikiProject Banner Flag

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Articles where the WikiProject Lakes banner explicitly has been flagged needs-image=yes appear inCategory:Wikipedia requested images of lakes (37)

Infobox Body of Water Missing Images or Maps

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The infoboxes can feature an image, this may include more than lakes, lochs, and static bodies of water without photos or pushpin maps. These are tracked via:

Linking with WikiData

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WikiData helps track facts across languages and enables automatic import or suggestion of facts for inboxes. Help make a comprehensive lake database to link to articles and enable more maintenance tools to be developed.

Accessibility Review

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Help check that articles, tables, and infoboxes are configured for accessibility. The accessibility features benefit not only humans, but search engines and automation tools too.

Article Accessibility

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SeeManual of Style on Accessibility for article best practices and tips. SeeAlt text Manual of Style for specific guidelines.

Infobox Accessibility

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The Body of Water Infoboxes should have a descriptive "Alt" tag for every Image or Map.

Lists and Tables Accessibility

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Use of scope= in tables, and selection and use of colors can affect the ability to read a table. Wikipediaguidelines on list accessibility andguidelines on Table accessibility.

Articles with Lakes To Do list

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Articles with {{todo, lakes}} with items to coordinate development and refinement:Category:Lakes articles with to-do lists

Assessment

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Improve the article quality assessment by reviewing pages and setting priorities. The criteria for each is found on theAssessment page of WikiProject Lakes.

Quality of Articles

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  • 3.5% List-Class
  • 65.7% Stub-Class
  • 25.5% Start-Class
  • 4% C-Class
  • 1% B-Class
  • 0.3% GA-Class
  • 0% FA-Class


Articles assessed for quality:100% complete


All articles higher than Stub class:34.3% complete
All articles higher than Start class:4.8% complete
All articles higher than C class:1.3% complete
All articles GA, FA or FL class:0.3% complete

Importance of Articles

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Article alerts

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Article alerts

Articles for deletion

Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

Good article nominees

Requested moves

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Articles for creation

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New articles for "waterbodies":

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AlexNewArtBot/WaterbodiesSearchResult

This list was generated fromthese rules. Questions and feedbackare always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results.Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules |Match log |Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-07-16 23:13 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. SeeList display personalization for details.

Article WikiProject Lakes Watchlist

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A shared WikiProject Lakes watchlist:

Talk Watchlist by Category
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Talk Watchlist by Class
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Hot Articles

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Frequently edited articles highlighted atWikipedia:WikiProject_Lake/Hot_articles.

13 editsAotea Lagoon
10 editsHoidas Lake
6 editsLake Biwa
5 editsMcPhee Reservoir
4 editsWilczyn Lake
4 editsLac de Chalain
4 editsCapitol Lake
4 editsPragser Wildsee
3 editsLake Osveya
3 editsLake Monomonac

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 17 July 2025 byHotArticlesBot.

Articles

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All articles with the lake project talk page template are listed at:

Recognized Content

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A bot curated list ofWikiProject Lakes most recognized content.

Most popular

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A bot curated list of WikiProject Lakes top 500 articles based on page views appearing atWikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes/Popular_pages.

Lists

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For a more comprehensive list, seeLists of lakes.
See also:Category:Lists of lakes
(This is a representation of lists types and is not comprehensive.)
Work lists:

Participants

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Active Members

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See also:Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Lakes

If you wish to participate, simply add your name below:

Everyone is welcome to join WikiProject Lakes, just edit this section and insert theWikitext#{{subst:me}} - Lakes topic or region interest(s) to end of the following list of members. Display your membership by adding aMembers Userbox on your user page.

Inactive Members

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Members will be moved to this list after no activity is detected on your User contributions page for on EN Wikipedia in the previous 365 days. If you find your name on this list, feel free to move it back to the member list above.

Inactive Member List
  1. Sailorman722 (talk ·contribs) 18:55:45, 17 March 2022 (UTC)  - Portage Lakes[reply]

Userbox

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Placing either of the following userboxes on your user page will add add you toCategory:WikiProject Lakes participants.

Wikitextuserboxwhere used
{{Template:User WP Lakes}}linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Lakes}}
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Lakes.
linked pages
{{Template:User interest Caspian Sea}}
This user is interested in theCaspian Sea.
linked pages
{{Template:User interest Dead Sea}}
This user is interested in theDead Sea.
linked pages
{{Template:User interest Great Lakes}}
This user is interested in theGreat Lakes.
linked pages
{{Template:User interest Lake Baikal}}
This user is interested inLake Baikal.
linked pages

Naming

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Articles

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As of the first stages of development, no written-in-stone rules apply to lake articles; however, this may change. Please discuss this at theproject's talk page. More general guide on naming is found at:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) while project specific cases are addressed below.

Multiple lakes with the same name

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Due to the fact that there are countless lakes in the world with the same name, the following method of disambiguation is proposed:

  • The most well known lake can stay at the un-disambiguated title, lesser known ones add a qualifier. Perhaps [[Fork Lake]], [[Fork Lake (disambiguation)]], [[Fork Lake (Alberta)]].
  • Where a number of lakes with the same name exist in a region, the disambiguation may need to include a subregion and a Set Index Article. Create aset index article to aid in common region naming which is the current common practice for the common names like Mud Lake and Clear Lake. [[name (region)]] such asClear Lake (Michigan) which are similar to lists, but with different rules allowing for redlinking and help with disambiguation and navigation. Lakes linked within the index should include the a subregion and region such asClear Lake (Berrien County, Michigan) most often the administrative region where it is located.

Lakes with multiple names

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Some lakes have names with multiple spellings which vary with the different countries the lake borders. Occasionally, a lake can have several genuinely distinct names. The following rules are suggested for choosing a primary name for such a lake:

  • If the lake is particularly famous under one name, then choose that name.
  • If the portion of the lake that uses a particular name is much more distinct than other sections, then use that as the article's name.
  • If everything else is equal, then choose the name for the largest portion of the lake.

Lakes crossing regional borders

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Lets discuss to refine and add examples
This naming practice of lakes that cross borders should follow the naming resolution forPrecision and disambiguation. If you find an article and are unsure you can apply the controversial moves template to add move suggestion and rational.

Example:

Lists

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This guide aims to expand upon the practices outlined atWikipedia:Stand-alone lists,Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists), andWikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists#Special_names_of_lists to address cases and application to WikiProject Lakes. Discuss changes onWP Lakes Talk.

Natural vs Manmade

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  • If the scope of the list is primarily of natural features ie lakes for consistency withCategories the format should use"of" [[List of Lakes of Country]]. Add a redirect for the "in" variant.
  • If the scope of the list is primarily man-made features like reservoirs for consistency withCategories the format should use"in" [[List of Dams and Reservoirs in Country]]. Add a redirect for the "of" variant.
  • When a list scope and title is a mix of man-made and natural features the type follow the convention of the existing lists, but if no others exist use the of the majority of the article's content to dictate if "of" or "in" should be the primary article name. Add a redirect for the name variant that was not selected.

Article structure

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Lead paragraph

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The first paragraph should be a self-contained description including the most important things to know; name(s) - both historic and current - in bold, location (continent/countries/seaboards), and notable facts about the lake, such as largest port (seeWikipedia:Lead section for guidelines).

Hydrology

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The narrative description of the lake should proceed from the main inflows of the lake downstream to its outflows, noting direction, major tributaries, human settlements and statistics. This should be at least a paragraph, maybe several paragraphs for famous lakes. This section would also include numerical data on length, volume, drainage basin, etc.

Info on water basins can be found atWorld resources Institute (site is down;archive). Antarctic water basin information can be researched usingUSGS maps.

Geology

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The evolution of some lakes has been well explored. Such information should be placed here, with a suitable discussion of all point of views when possible.

Natural history

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Mention distinctive plants and animals associated with any part of the lake.

History

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Describe what is known about the different inhabitants along the river, along with a description of the scientific exploration expeditions/efforts.

Economy

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Countless lakes have been used as means of transportation, fishing, power generation, etc., and are still used so today. All such information should be described here. Stylistically, this can be a good segue from history, connecting past uses of the lake to present-day uses.

Lists

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List the cities and towns around the lake, complete with identifiable info such as population. List the major flora and fauna such as species of interest.

References and external links

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Preferably refer to history, ecology, public policy, books, websites, etc.

Infobox

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The following may be used:

Images

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See also:Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes/Galleries

There should be at least one picture, preferably a typical view. Important lakes should have additional pictures illustrating their notable features. Maps of the lake'sdrainage basin would be an asset.

Articles where the infobox doesn't include an image yet are listed at: [[:Category:Articles using infobox body of water without image]]

Indexing

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The articleList of lakes is only for major lakes, ordered by continent.

Categories

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The main subcategories ofCategory:Lakes are listed on the right:

Categorization by location

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Every article should belong to a category. If the lake is restricted to one or more states/provinces in a country, use separate categories for each one, e.g.Lake Tahoe belongs inCategory:Lakes of Nevada as well asCategory:Lakes of California. If it is restricted to one country, list in Category:country lakes. If it exists within several countries, list in each country category and maybe Category:continent lakes.

Please use categories carefully to get the right one(s) linked on your page. It is fine to use more than one... in fact, it may be encouraged. However, don't categorize a lake where it doesn't belong. If there are any questions, please use the Talk page.

Categorization by type

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If the category for the specifictype of lake is available, please add it in addition to the category by location.

List structure

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A guide for theList Structure of Lakes Project list articles (Category:List-Class Lakes articles is currently under development on thetalk page.

The discussion is currently developing a guide for Lakes, Lochs, and Reservoirs focusing the guidelines fromWikiProject Lists in the context of WikiProject Lakes' scope. Additionally, work previously done is being documented to help check the existing list articles and inform their expansion. Please feel free to contribute to this discussion.

List Types

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Types of lists within WikiProject Lakes scope:(To be expanded in discussion)

Set Index Lists

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  • Lakes with the Same Name in Region

Lakes or Reservoir in Region(s)

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  • Lists of lakes/lochs of a given Country
  • Lists of lakes/lochs of given Country Region
  • Lists of dams and reservoirs in a given Country
  • Lists of dams and reservoirs in given Country Region

Largest Measure

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Lists of lakes/lochs/reservoirs by largest:

  • Surface Area
  • Depth
  • Elevation

Defaults

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The default parameters to be included in all list articles are being discussed. Proposed options include:

  • Sort Order (To be expanded)
  • Columns - Name, Coordinate, Region, Surface Area, National Identifier (optional) (To be expanded)

Templates

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Talk page banner

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The message box{{WikiProject Lakes}} is available and preferred to add to talk pages of lake articles and gives:

WikiProject iconLakesUnassessed
WikiProject iconWikipedia:WikiProject Lakes is within the scope ofWikiProject Lakes, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage oflake-relatedarticles on Wikipedia, using the tools on theproject page. If you would like toparticipate, please visit the project page, where you can join thediscussion and see a list ofopen tasks.LakesWikipedia:WikiProject LakesTemplate:WikiProject LakesLakesWikiProject icon
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia'scontent assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on theproject's importance scale.

Early pages of the project were tagged with{{lake project}} and result in the same banner, but{{WikiProject Lakes}} is the format closely following WikiProjects article tagging practice.WP:WikiProject coordination

Talk page todo

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See also:Category:Lakes articles with to-do lists

The{{Todo, lakes}} is applied to the article talk page to outline what else the article needs to reach then next class after an assessment and to list other leads for further development.

Navboxes

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See also:Category:Lake navigational boxes
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Summary

Infobox

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Lake Baikal
БайкалError {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help)
aerial view of rocky island in Lake Baikal
Shaman-Stone of theOlkhon Island
Location of the lake in Russia.
Location of the lake in Russia.
Lake Baikal
LocationIrkutsk Oblast andRepublic of Buryatia,Russia
Coordinates53°30′N108°12′E / 53.5°N 108.2°E /53.5; 108.2
TypeContinental rift lake
Primary inflowsSelenga,Chikoy,Khilok,Uda,Barguzin,Upper Angara
Primary outflowsAngara
Catchment area560,000 km2 (216,000 sq mi)
Basin countriesRussia
Max. length636 km (395 mi)
Max. width79 km (49 mi)
Surface area31,494 km2 (12,160 sq mi)
Average depth758 m (2,487 ft)
Max. depth1,637 m (5,371 ft)
Water volume23,600 km3 (5,700 cu mi)
Residence time350 years[citation needed]
Shore length12,100 km (1,300 mi)
Surface elevation456 m (1,496 ft)
FrozenJanuary–May
Islands22 (Olkhon)
SettlementsIrkutsk
1 Shore length isnot a well-defined measure.

Set Index Page

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TheLake index tag {{Lake index}} offers functionality similar to Disambiguation, but for just the same type ie lakes. Functionally similar to list pages, but often contains more than just a list. The index pages also works well as a focus list for creating the articles with redlinks. TheLakes Set Index Category highlights current indexes.

Stubs

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TheWikipedia WikiProject Stub sorting created:Category:Lake stubs and the articles with{{lake stub}} included on the page will appear in the category. Country specific lake stubs are in the formatcountry-lake-stub ie{{US-lake-stub}}.

Userboxes

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Members

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Showing Project Membership and interest in lakes. These will lists your account in bothCategory:WikiProject Lakes participants andCategory:Wikipedians interested in lakes.

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This user is a participant in
WikiProject Lakes.
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Expressing Interest in Lakes

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Showing General Interest in Lakes only. Will only list your account inCategory:Wikipedians interested in lakes.

CodeResult
{{Template:User Sush/Lakes}}
This user is interested in studying aboutlakes.
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{{Template:User Lake}}
This user is interested inlakes and lacustrine processes.
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{{Template:User interest lakes}}
This user is interested in
Lakes
Usage

Barnstar

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{{subst:The Lacustrine Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

The Lacustrine Barnstar
messagename (talk) date/time

Categories

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Resources

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