Finger lake
Narrow, linear lake occupying a glacial valley
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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."[1][2][3] 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 llynnoedd.
United States
- Finger Lakes, New York State
