List of prehistoric lakes

This a partial list of prehistoric lakes. Although the form of the names below differ, the lists are alphabetized by the identifying name of the lake (e.g., Algonquin for Glacial Lake Algonquin).

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North America

• In North America, where the Great Lakes are now:
  • Glacial Lake Admiralty at Lake Ontario
  • Glacial Lake Algonquin at Lake Huron
  • Glacial Lake Baraboo, communicating with Glacial Lake Wisconsin here
  • Glacial Lake Chicago at the southern portion of Lake Michigan
  • Lake Chippewa at Lake Michigan
  • Glacial Lake Duluth at Lake Superior
  • Glacial Lake Frontenac at Lake Ontario
  • Glacial Lake Grantsburg, draining through the Saint Croix River, here
  • Glacial Lake Iroquois at Lake Ontario
  • Glacial Lake Maumee at Lake Erie
  • Glacial Lake Minong at Lake Superior
  • Lake Stanley at Lake Huron
  • Glacial Lake Wisconsin at Lake Michigan

• Elsewhere in North America:
  • Glacial Lake Agassiz in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Minnesota, North Dakota
  • Glacial Lake Albany in the valley of the Hudson River
  • Lake Allison in Western Oregon
  • Lake Bonneville in Utah and Idaho and Nevada
  • Lake Cahuilla in Southern California at the Salton Sea and today's cities of Indio, Mexicali, and El Centro, CA
  • Glacial Lake Calvin in southeast Iowa
  • Champlain Sea in Vermont, New York, Quebec and Ontario
  • Glacial Lake Columbia in central Washington State
  • Lake Edmonton in Alberta
  • Glacial Lake Great Falls in Montana
  • Glacial Lake Hind in southwestern Manitoba
  • Glacial Lake Hitchcock in the valley of the Connecticut River
  • Lake Lahontan in Nevada
  • Lubbock Lake in Texas (see Lubbock Lake Landmark)
  • Lake Manly covered Death Valley
  • Glacial Lake McConnell in Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan
  • Glacial Lake Missoula in Montana
  • Glacial Lake Ojibway in eastern Canada
  • Glacial Lake Passaic in New Jersey
  • Lake Peace in Alberta and British Columbia
  • Glacial Lake Regina
  • Glacial Lake Saginaw
  • Glacial Lake Souris across North Dakota and Manitoba
  • Glacial Lake Tight, named for William G. Tight
  • Glacial Lake Tonawanda in New York state
  • Glacial Lake Vermont in Vermont, New York states, and the province of Quebec
  • Glacial Lake Wisconsin in Wisconsin
  • Glacial Lake Snoqualmie in Washington State

Europe

• Lake Komi, a proglacial lake formed in the vicinity of the present-day Russian Komi Republic.
• Baltic Ice Lake, freshwater period of the Baltic Sea
• Ancylus Lake, freshwater period of the Baltic Sea
• Lake Harrison in the Midlands in England
• Lake Lapworth in Shropshire in England
• Orcadian Lakes of the Old Red Sandstone, Scotland
• Lake Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds in England
• Ebro endorheic lake system, in the Ebro Basin, (Spain)
• Duero endorheic lake system, in the Duero Basin, (Spain)
• Gjende Lake in the Jotunheimen mountains of Norway

South America

• Lake Ballivián in South America, covered the Altiplano in the Andes

Asia

• West Siberian Glacial Lake

Africa

• Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert in Africa

See also

• List of endorheic basins
• List of lakes