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| Tal-y-llyn Lake | |
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| Looking north-east up the Bwlch Llyn Bach pass | |
| Location | Mid Wales |
| Coordinates | 52°40′21″N 3°53′51″W / 52.67250°N 3.89744°WCoordinates: 52°40′21″N 3°53′51″W / 52.67250°N 3.89744°W |
| Lake type | Ribbon Lake |
| Primary outflows | River Dysynni |
| Basin countries | United Kingdom |
| Surface area | 220 acres (89 ha)[1] |
| References | [1] |
Tal-y-llyn Lake, also known as Talyllyn Lake or Llyn Mwyngil, is a large glacial ribbon lake formed by a post-glacial massive landslip damming up the lake within the glaciated valley.[2] It is situated at the foot of Cadair Idris, in the Snowdonia mountain range of Gwynedd, Wales.
The River Dysynni flows from the lake, through the village of Abergynolwyn, and discharges into the sea north of Tywyn.
The narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway has its eastern terminus at nearby Abergynolwyn, within the parish of Talyllyn.
In 2009 a landscape photograph of the lake was included as an official desktop wallpaper (GB-wp3) with the release of the Microsoft operating system Windows 7, thus bring an image of the lake to millions of desktop PCs.
[edit] In fiction
1976 Newbury Medal winner [3] Susan Cooper used the lake as a setting for the book The Grey King. Within the lake six sleepers lie, wakened by Will Stanton playing the Harp of Gold[4]. Afterward, they ride to aid the of the Light[5] in the book Silver on the Tree.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "WalesDirectory - Tal-y-llyn Lake". http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/Lakes/Tal_y_Llyn.htm.
- ^ University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Educational Visits & Fieldwork
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal#Newbery_recipients
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence#Characters
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence#Rhymes
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