what is the largest man made lake in illinois?
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Many lakes in Illinois are man-made impoundments of rivers. Carlyle Lake is the largest man-made lake in Illinois, formed by building a dam across the Kaskaskia River in 1958.
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With a surface area of approximately 59,947 square kilometres (23,146 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America.
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Located in East Central Illinois - just a short drive from Springfield, Decatur, Champaign, Effingham and other surrounding communities, Eagle Creek State Park is situated on the central part of beautiful Lake Shelbyville and provides the perfect setting outdoor recreation and natural relaxation for a day, weekend, or ...
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Lake Norman. Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Norman, created between 1959 and 1964 as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy, is the largest man-made body of fresh water in North Carolina.
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The Akosombo Dam – also known as the Volta Dam – is on the Volta River in south east Ghana. At 124m tall and 660m long, the structure holds back the waters of Lake Volta – the largest man-made lake in the world by surface area.
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Lake Okeechobee is the second largest fresh water lake in the US. The lake covers over 730 square miles and is connected to both of Florida's coasts via the man made Okeechobee Waterway. The Lake is 33 miles wide from north to south, and 30 miles wide from east to west.
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A new Asian carp found in central Illinois has prompted concern about native wildlife. Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials say a black carp was caught in April in the Illinois River south of Peoria, more than 100 miles north of where the species has been recorded.
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Illinois is known as the "Land of Lincoln" as Abraham Lincoln spent most of his life there. Inventors John Deere and Cyrus McCormick made their fortunes in Illinois by improving farm machinery. The tallest man in the world was born in Alton in 1918.
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Human-Made Lakes And Ponds. Many people have declared that “Missouri doesn't have any natural lakes.” This is because they discount the many scour holes, oxbow lakes, and karst-made lakes described just above. But indeed, the lakes and ponds most of Missourians visit are indeed “manmade.”
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Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (749 km²), the largest man-made body of water in (or partially in) Louisiana, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest (surface acre) in the United States.
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The man-made lakes, also called reservoirs or impoundments, could be of simple earth (earthen dams), masonry dams or cemented dams etc. They are technically called as Anicuts, storage reservoirs and stream reservoirs.
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Lake Huron is the fifth largest freshwater lake in the world. Since Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are connected by the Straits of Mackinac, they are considered one lake hydrologically. Including the shoreline of its 30,000 islands, Lake Huron's shoreline is the longest of the Great Lakes.
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But scientists say that is impossible. Lake Michigan has been almost exclusively a man-made ecosystem for nearly a century, according to the fisheries biologists charged with stewardship of the lake.
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Lake Victoria, also called Victoria Nyanza, largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya. Its area is 26,828 square miles (69,484 square km). Among the freshwater lakes of the world, it is exceeded in size only by Lake Superior in North America.
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List of lakes of Oklahoma. ... All lakes listed are man-made. Oklahoma's only natural lakes are oxbow and playa lakes. Oklahoma has sixty-two oxbow lakes at least 10 acres in size.
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The Great Lakes are the largest group in a chain of large lakes (including Winnipeg, Athabasca, Great Slave and Great Bear) that lies along the southern boundary of the Canadian SHIELD. From W to E the Great Lakes comprise Lakes SUPERIOR, Michigan (entirely in the US), HURON, ST CLAIR, ERIE and ONTARIO.