List of lakes by volume

List of lakes by volume

This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km³, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration. Lake volumes can also change dramatically over time and during the year, especially for salt lakes in arid climates. For these reasons, and because of changing research, information on lake volumes can vary considerably from source to source. The base data for this article is from "The Water Encyclopedia" (1990). [Citation|last1=van der Leeden |last2=Troise |last3=Todd |title=The Water Encyclopedia| publication-place=Chelsea, MI| publisher=Lewis Publishers| year=1990| page=198–200| edition=2nd] Where volume data from more recent surveys or other authoritative sources has been used it is referenced specifically in each entry.

The list

In 1960, the Aral Sea was the world's twelfth largest known lake by volume, at convert|1100|km3|cumi|abbr=on. However, by 2007 it had shrunk to 10% its original size, and this was divided into three lakes, none large enough to appear on this list.cite news | author=Philip Micklin; Nikolay V. Aladin | title=Reclaiming the Aral Sea | url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=reclaiming-the-aral-sea&sc=rss | work=Scientific American | date=March 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-17]

By continent

*Africa - Lake Tanganyika
*Antarctica - Lake Vostok
*Asia - Caspian Sea
*Oceania
*Europe - Lake Ladoga
*North America - Lake Superior
*South America - Lake Titicaca (Lake Maracaibo)

References

ee also

*List of lakes by depth
*List of lakes by area
*Largest Lakes of Western Europe - Rank Order


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