1Battle of Lake Poyang
The Battle of Lake Poyang (1363) was a naval battle that led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty. It is claimed to be the largest naval battle in history in terms of personnel, with a reported 850,000 sailors involved. The Yuan dynasty was established by Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan.
2. East Lake in Wuhan is the second-largest urban lake in China. Each year, about 441 tons of nitrogen and 40 tons of phosphorus flow into the lake. Most parts of the lake have been assessed as eutrophicated, unsuitable for drinking, and many recreational purposes.
3. Summersville Lake is the largest lake in West Virginia. It was constructed in the early 1960s when the Gauley River was dammed at the village of Gad (which is now under its waters) but the powers that be decided not to name it the Gad Dam.
4. A turquoise lake in Siberia is nicknamed the "Novosibirsk Maldives" because of how tropical it looks. Popular with Instagrammers, it is actually a power plant's ash dump, and the lake gets its distinct color from calcium salts and other metal oxides. The water in the lake is actually toxic and it is dangerous to swim in it.
5. Lake Vostok, in Antarctica, is the 16th largest lake in the world. The lake water itself has been isolated for upwards of 15 million years, sealed off by a sheet of ice.
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6Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur became the deepest lake in Lousiana in 1980 after the Gulf Of Mexico flowed into it as a result of Texaco employees accidentally flushing the entire lake like a toilet into the salt mine beneath it.
7. The deepest depths of Lake Erie are still at a higher elevation than the surface of Lake Ontario. The two lakes are only separated by about 21 miles (34 kilometers).
8. Hawaii's largest freshwater lake, Green Lake (Ka Wai o Pele), no longer exists as it completely boiled away during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.
9. Lake Hillier in Australia is a naturally-occurring neon pink lake and it is the only lake in the world to naturally stay colored all year round and scientists still aren't sure exactly why the salt and bacteria in the lake react this way and nowhere else in the world.
10. Isa Lake in Yellowstone National Park is the only lake in the world that drains to 2 separate oceans.
11Lake Kaindy
There exists an underwater forest in Lake Kaindy in Kazakhstan that was created after an earthquake in 1911 triggered a large landslide blocking the gorge and forming a natural dam
12. Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are hydrologically the same lake. They are joined by the 5-mile wide, 120ft deep Straits of Mackinac, and depending on conditions, water can flow in either direction, which keeps their water levels similar.
13. The Toba supervolcanic eruption occurred about 75,000 years ago at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Indonesia. It is the largest known explosive eruption on Earth in the last 25 million years. It had global consequences for human populations in that it caused a population bottleneck which affects genetic diversity in humans to this day.
14. Torch Lake, which is often compared to the Caribbean is located in Michigan and is one of the clearest lakes in the world.
15. At the depths of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is a super-dense layer of water called the “Deep Brine.” Divers describe it as having the consistency of runny Jello.
16Loughareema Lake
Loughareema Lake located in the County Antrim in Northern Ireland has been nicknamed ‘The Vanishing Lake’ because it fills up and empties frequently, but unpredictably due to unknown geological conditions. There are three streams flowing into the lake but none out.
17. Mount Storm Lake in West Virginia is a 1200 acre lake that is super-heated by a coal burning power plant and even in zero degree temperatures the water in the lake never dips below 50 degrees.
18. Lake Okeechobee, despite being Florida's largest freshwater lake and covering an area of 730 square miles, has an average depth of just 9 feet.
19. Lake Michigan gets so clear after winter's ice melts that you can actually see shipwrecks in the depths from the air.
20. Lake McDonald located in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana is remarkable for having very clear water. One of the most striking features of this lake is the presence of a variety of colored rocks and pebbles just below the water surface and on the shores. The rocks range in color from dark red to maroon, and from green to blue.
21Gaet'ale Pond
Gaet'ale Pond in Ethiopia is one of the most saltiest bodies of water in the world. It formed during an earthquake in 2005. Its water is yellow and it occasionally releases gases that kill small animals that get close to it.
22. In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon expelled up to 300,000 tons of CO2 in the air due to seismic activity under the lake, suffocating every living animal within a 16-mile radius including 1700 villagers and 3500 livestock. The blue lake turned deep red from oxidization and water levels dropped by a meter.
23. Lake Chagan in Kazakhstan was created using a nuclear weapon and the radioactivity in the lake has decayed to the point that people can swim in it safely.
24. Lake Tahoe at one time was named Lake Bigler in honor of the popular third governor of California. However, once it was revealed that Bigler was a Confederate sympathizer during the US Civil War, his name was removed from the lake and renamed Tahoe
25. The bottom of Lake Ontario is so cold that skyscrapers use water from the bottom of the lake as a coolant for AC systems.
