third largest mainland our beautiful planet earth - North America - surprising alliance of civilization and untouched nature.In the vicinity of densely populated places preserved natural environment in its original form: hot deserts, wild coast, fertile prairies, wild valleys.Here you can see the lake in North America - the largest and most magnificent in the world.
bounty of nature on the mainland is manifested in everything: trees surprise unprecedented heights, volcanoes shake powerful eruptions, geysers fascinate boiling.
Heritage glaciers
Lakes of North America are mostly located in the north of the continent.This glacial lake of tectonic origin.In the distant past, handing over their positions, while retreating glacier left in Canada - the most northern part of the continent - tectonic depressions that formed the lake.Among these lakes belong to the Great Bear, Great Slave.
Captured bears
fourth largest lake in North America - Big Bear Lake - resembles the shape of an irregular star.Located in the area of the Arctic Circle in the north side of the lake is surrounded by permafrost and tundra.This is the only straight stretch of coastline.On the other three sides by rocky peninsulas indented coast.
Located in harsh environments Bear Lake a significant part of the year, "sleeping" under the ice that covers the surface in October.Free ice pond becomes only in June, but the water is ice-cold throughout the summer season.
Despite the short period of navigation, the lake is a transport route, taking in the waters of passenger and cargo ships.By the rivers lake is connected to other waters of Central and Northern Canada.On the water surface of the Mackenzie River, connected to the lake inflow, we can reach the Arctic Ocean and into the Great Slave Lake, where the river originates.
record holder continent
Another Lake Laurentian Upland Canada rightfully takes pride of place in the register of the wonders of nature in North America.Great Slave Lake is superior to all the brothers of the North American continent in depth, which is 614 meters.
pond got its name in ancient times, when the coast was inhabited by Indians Slavey.The name of the tribe is consonant with the English word slave , meaning slave.So the name came into use with a distorted sense.
Like many lakes of North America, Slave Lake navigable short summer, and eight months of the year is bound by ice shell.For years the movement of sturdy ice in the winter and walking in the road transport was the only way of communication between the coastal settlements until invested in the road along the coast.
Nature shores of the lake is very colorful.The once-deserted north shore of the lake is represented by tundra forests during the gold rush prityanuvshy to his thousands of gold miners.
eastern and southern shores are surrounded by national parks on the side of the road where you can find Forest buffalo endangered.
Recreation
National Parks, sailing regattas, sandy beaches - summer fun on the ice - in winter.But the most popular Slave Lake has earned among anglers.The variety of the inhabitants of the lake (trout, pike, whitefish, perch, Arctic Grayling) in any season, in any weather attracts fans of silent hunting.
enchanting beauty
educated in the crater of an extinct volcano south of the Oregon over 7,000 years ago, Crater Lake is the main attraction of the state to attract tourists.
past volcanic lakes demonstrate two islands in its waters, is a cone of volcanic ash.More than a century ago, based on the territory adjacent to Lake National Park is the informal name of pumice desert.Devoid of vegetation due to the porosity of the surface area of the park has retained all traces of volcanic past.
Magnificent dark blue waters of the most unusual lake in North America, reflecting as in a huge mirror on the surface of the water surface of the peaks of the surrounding mountains, the imagination from the first moment.The unity of a deep lake, naked cliffs surrounding a height of almost two thousand feet, two picturesque islands is a special sense of beauty.
Lake has one more unusual interest: in a vertical position, acting on the water surface and a half meters, more than one hundred years on the lake in a certain direction of movement floats ten-tree trunk without undergoing changes in the structure over time.
