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A finger lake, also known as a fjord lake or trough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by a morainic dam." Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjord or sea-loch.

Examples

New Zealand

• Lake Wakatipu, Otago, South Island.

United Kingdom

England

• Many of the lakes of the Lake District are finger lakes.

Scotland

• Many lochs of Scotland are finger lakes. Some like Loch Broom and Loch Maree form fjord and finger lake systems.

Wales

• Many of the Welsh llyns.

United States

• Finger Lakes, New York State

See also

• Zungenbecken
• Lakes portal

References

1. Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.
2. Whittow (1984), 193.
3. Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.

Literature

• Hamblin, P.F. and Carmack, E.C., 1978. River‐induced currents in a Fjord Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 83(C2), pp. 885–899.
• Kotlyakov, Vladimir and Anna Komarova, Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6.
• Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.

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