List of lakes of Sweden explained
The list of lakes of Sweden contains the major lakes in the nation of Sweden. However, Sweden has over 97,500 lakes larger than 2acres, so the list is not comprehensive.[1] The great number of lakes in southern Sweden could according to Alfred Gabriel Nathorst be indebted to the creation of basins due to the stripping of an irregular mantle of weathered rock by glacier erosion.[2]
Alphabetical list
Some of the major lakes in Sweden:
Largest lakes by area
Deepest lakes
Subject to geological variations
- Hornavan - 228m (748feet)
- Torneträsk - 168m (551feet)
- Vojmsjön - 145m (476feet)
- Stor-Blåsjön - 144m (472feet)
- Stor-Rensjön - 140m (460feet)
- Virihaure - 138m (453feet)
- Kallsjön - 134m (440feet)
- Vastenjaure - 134m (440feet)
- Siljan - 134m (440feet)
- Kultsjön - 130m (430feet)
Largest lakes by volume
Lakes with the most water:
- Vänern - 153km3
- Vättern - 77.6km3
- Torneträsk - 17.1km3
- Mälaren - 14.3km3
- Hornavan - 11.9km3
- Siljan - 8.09km3
- Storsjön - 8.02km3
- Kallsjön - 6.14km3
- Akkajaure - 5.9km3
- Virihaure - 4.43km3
- Storuman - 4.18km3
Water life
- In lakes and rivers, there are a total of 52 species of fresh water fish; but several of them are rare.
See also
Notes
- "Lakes, Streams and Rivers" Smorgasbord, 2007, webpage (English language): SverigeTur-lakes .
- Book: Lidmar-Bergström, K. . Olsson . S.. Roaldset . E.. Karna Lidmar-Bergström . 1999 . Relief features and palaeoweathering remnants in formerly glaciated Scandinavian basement areas . Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits . Thiry . Médard . Simon-Coinçon . Régine . Blackwell Science Ltd . 275–301 . 0-632 -05311-9 . 27. Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists .
- http://www.scb.se/statistik/_publikationer/OV0904_2012A01_BR_02_A01BR1201.pdf Statistisk årsbok 2012
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