Why is lake disappointment in Australia called 'lake disappointment?'?
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It is called Lake Disappointment because this is where the Austrailian government requires all Australian Olympic participants to train.  If they come home without a medal they are forced to swim across the lake with bricks on their feet.  Once they reach the other side, kangaroos with boxing gloves on await them.  At this point they are so fatigued, it's like watching American settlers conquor the Native Americans with their "Fire Sticks".  Once the kangaroos have their fill, the government cooks them a steak on the barbie, throws it in the lake, and then throws the Olympic failure in the lake.  It's really quite interesting.  I think tickets to it sell quick.
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I dont understand. Australia is a nice place. There must be a problem with you. Maybe you are going to the wrong places, meeting the wrong people.
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A mere is a lake which is broader than in relation to its depth!!  A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. And a water is a body of water!!
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I would say rainwater collected in circular depressions until a lake formed.
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I forgot about the water difference ... the one that comes first to my mind is the "Stars" ... you will not have the "North Star" in the Southern Hemisphere ... honestly, I have no idea how Magellin navigated on his journey.
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Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie (these towns are on the Goldfields). The activity you are talking about is known as fossicking by the locals and the Western Australian Tourist Commission will help with further details and permits etc, Jules, Australia.
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Lake effect snow is also know as a snowsquall. It is produced in the winter when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lee shores. This effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic effect of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow, but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow per hour. The areas affected by lake effect snow are called snowbelts.\n\nCold winds in the winter typically prevail from the west-southwest to the northwest in the North Temperate Zone, producing the most dramatic lake effect snow falls on the northeast to south east shores of the Great Lakes. This lake effect produces a significant difference between the snow fall on the eastern and western shores of the Great Lakes. If the air temperature is not low enough to keep the precipitation frozen, it falls as lake effect rain.\n\nTo can read a detailed article on Lake Snow Effect, Variables Contributing to Lake Effect Snow and Areas Hit By Lake Effect Snow and much more at the following articles :\n\n(1) http://www.noaa.gov/questions/question_011602.html\n(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_effect_snow\n(3) http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wlakeeff/wlakeeff.htm\n(4) http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/smfaculty/byrd/\n(5) http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap10/lake_effect_snow.html
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Lake Victoria also known as lake Victoria Nyanza in Africa
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Lakes don't hold water... \nLakes happen because the water coming into the lakes through streams, springs, rivers and run-off is in balance with the amount of water being lost from the lake as rivers further downstream, seepage through the ground and evaporation of vapour into the air.\nYou dig a hole in the ground and fill it up, it will lose the water as it drains away, but if you put a hose into it with a steady supply of water, the water appears as if it is not going anywhere.. VOILA.. you have built a lake!!!\n\nAnd.. BY THE WAY.. WEIRD DUDE.. really.. go get a life.. This person asked a fair question and deserved a fair answer..
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It annoys me when people say there is continent called Australasia. Australasia is simply a geographic point. Oceania is not a continent. Aside from a region in FIFA for world cup soccer qualifiers we don't even use it in Australia. The continent is Australia. So I do agree with you. Oceania is not a continent and just for the record, Indonesia is in ASIA.
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Lake effect snow is also know as a snowsquall. It is produced in the winter when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lee shores. This effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic effect of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow, but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow per hour. The areas affected by lake effect snow are called snowbelts.\n\nCold winds in the winter typically prevail from the west-southwest to the northwest in the North Temperate Zone, producing the most dramatic lake effect snow falls on the northeast to south east shores of the Great Lakes. This lake effect produces a significant difference between the snow fall on the eastern and western shores of the Great Lakes. If the air temperature is not low enough to keep the precipitation frozen, it falls as lake effect rain.\n\nTo can read a detailed article on Lake Snow Effect, Variables Contributing to Lake Effect Snow and Areas Hit By Lake Effect Snow and much more at the following article :\n\nhttp://www.noaa.gov/questions/question_011602.html
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Start by looking for a lake!
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about 2 years ago then this one sounds right\nhttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,11246059-27652,00.html\n\nhope that helps
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Pond\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nA pond is typically a body of water smaller than a lake. However the difference between a pond and an artificial lake is subjective. They are both formed by ponding water, either by excavating a hollow in which water may lie or by forming a dam to impound the water in a valley. The techniques may be combined to form a reservoir in flat country by enclosing an area with an embankment. Such a pond, unless very small, is usually called a reservoir. In some cultures, the meaning has been extended to include small bodies of water impounded naturally. (Oxford English Dictionary)\n\nScientifically, a pond is any body of water where light is found in the entire body of water. A lake is any body of water that has a profundal zone; there is as limit of effective light penetration for organisms. Hence, Lake Superior can theoretically be defined as Pond Superior because light does extend to the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\nNomenclature\nIn origin, pond is a variant form of the word pound, meaning a confining enclosure. As straying cattle are enclosed in a pound so water is enclosed in a pond. In earlier times, the uses of ponds were utilitarian; as stew ponds, mill ponds and so on. In medieval and baroque gardens, artificial bodies of water were called ponds or basins. As landowners began to decorate their parks with naturalistic bodies of water, they chose to distance their new, generally larger, decorative ponds from the prosaic and called them lakes. In this seems to lie the origin of the size distinction between lake and pond.\n\nAlso, where minerals such as gravel were extracted, the remaining hole might fill with water which, in time came to look natural. In some areas, such as Surrey such pools were called ponds. (An exalple is Frensham Ponds, though even in Wimbledon, which was in Surrey, such pools are meres.) This association of the pond name with a natural-seeming pool seems to have been carried abroad with emigrants so that in places like the United States, natural pools are often called ponds. Much of this article is written on the basis of this American view.\n\nA pond is characterized as being a small body of water that is shallow enough for sunlight to reach the bottom, permitting the growth of rooted plants at its deepest point. Seldom do ponds reach more that 3.6-4.5 meters (12 to 15 feet) in depth.\n\nPond usually describes small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross. Another definition is that a pond is a body of water where even its deepest areas are reached by sunlight or where a human can walk across the entire body of water without being submerged. In some dialects of English, pond normally refers to small artificially created bodies of water.\n\nThough not generally accepted, some regions of the United States define a pond as a body of water with a surface area of less than 10 acres (40,000 m²).\n\nRegional differences include the use of the word pond in New England, and Maine in particular, for relatively large waterbodies. For example, Great Pond, Maine, is over 10 square miles in area.\n\nIn areas which were covered by glaciers in the past, some ponds were created when the glaciers retreated. These ponds are knowns as kettle ponds . Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts is a well known example. Kettle ponds are usually quite deep and clean because they are fed by underground aquifers rather than streams.\n\nAnother suggested difference between ponds and lakes is that lakes are fed by rivers, creeks, and/or springs, while ponds are usually the result of rain runoff, modest springs, or perhaps a very small stream. Also, lakes tend to have much more irregular shorelines, with coves and so forth, while ponds tend to allow one to take them all in visually from a single location. Or, if the lake does have regular shorelines, then it tends to at the same time be a substantial body of water (e.g., Lake Okechobee). Lastly, while ponds may a
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Alaska.\n\n"The state with the most lakes is Alaska and not Minnesota despite the "10,000 Lakes" slogan on its license plates. Alaska is home to more than three million lakes."
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Some rivers dont they can finish in a lake thats inland. Water just flows downhill till its at the lowest level it can find which is usually the sea
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Not sure about on the globe, will come back to that one, but in South Africa it is, Lake Sibhayi.\n\nLake Sibhayi is the largest natural freshwater lake in South Africa, with a surface area of 77km². The lake is also wrongly known as Sibaya or Sibayi.\n\nThe lake is located in the Maputaland, or Umhlabuyalingana, area of KwaZulu-Natal, on the east coast of South Africa.\n\nIt is part of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park and is recognised under the Ramsar Convention as a "Wetland of International Importance" on 28 June 1991. In December 1999 The Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\n\n279 bird species have been identified at Lake Sibhayi.\n\nThe Mseleni Water Project and Mbazwana Water Supply Scheme both get their water from Lake Sibhayi.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Sibhayi