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Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border spans the centre of the lake.
This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km 3, ranked by volume. The volume of a lake is a difficult quantity to measure. [1] Generally, the volume must be inferred from bathymetric data by integration.
NameCountryRegionSurface AreaKazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, ...Caspian endorheic basin371,000 km 2 (143,000 sq mi)Southern Siberia: Buryatia and Irkutsk ...31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi)Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the ...32,900 km 2 (12,700 sq mi)Canada, United StatesNorth American Great Lakes82,100 km 2 (31,700 sq mi)- Formation and History
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Like all of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario as it is known today was the result of glacial shifting and melting at the end of the most recent Ice Age. The lake's name comes from an Iroquois word for "a beautiful lake." The first European to see reach Lake Ontario was Étienne Brulé, the French explorer and protégé of Samuel de Champlain. Brûlé is beli...
Because of the lake's depth and the warm weather that comes in from the southwest, Lake Ontario rarely freezes over. Water temperatures reach a high of about 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius) in August to a low of about 37 F (3 C) in February. The lake typically freezes just around the edges, closing its harbors from mid-December to mid-Ap...
Walleye, Coho salmon and Chinook salmon and a number of trout varieties, including rainbow and steelhead, are some of the fish that swim the waters of Lake Ontario. Invasive mussels cover much of the bottom of the lake in the coastal areas. Lake Ontario's climate is conducive to fruit trees, and the area has become a major growing area for apples, ...
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The Great Lakes receive their water supply from precipitation, which increases from west to east and from north to south. The average annual rainfall in the Lake Superior basin is 30 inches (760 millimeters), 31 inches in Lakes Huron and Michigan, and 34 and 36 inches in Lakes Erie and Ontario, respectively.
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Lake Ontario is 18,960 km 2 (10,000 km 2 in Canada), with a drainage area of 60,030 km 2, an elevation of 75 m, a mean depth of 86 m (max 244 m), length 311 km and width 85 km. It is the smallest in surface area and most easterly of the Great Lakes and eighth-largest body of fresh water in North America.
Jun 1, 2019 · Between April 18 and May 21, 2019, there was an average of 114.85 million m³ more water flowing into Lake Ontario than flowing out each day. Over 34 days, that makes for a total of 3.9 billion m³ of water.
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Lake Ontario has a water surface area of 19,009 square kilometers or 7,340 square miles. In total 5.6 million people live along Lake Ontario with about 2.8 million residents from the United States and Canada each.
