Recursive islands and lakes
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A recursive island or lake is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island.[1] For the purposes of defining recursion, small continental land masses such as Madagascar and New Zealand count as islands, while large continental land masses do not. Islands found within lakes in these countries are often recursive islands because the lake itself is located on an island.
Recursive islands
Islands in lakes
Only a few notable examples are given.
Islands in lakes on islands
There are nearly 1,000 islands in lakes on islands in Finland alone.[5]
Islands in lakes on islands in lakes
Name | In lake | On island | In lake | Country | Area (km2) |
Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kokkosaari[8] | Kokkohauta | Sääminginsalo | Saimaa | Finland | 0.88 | 61°59′20″N 29°12′55″E / 61.98889°N 29.21528°E | Sääminginsalo is considered an island, as it is separated from one side by an artificial canal (Raikuu canal). Claimed by some[by whom?] to be the world's largest island in a lake in an island in a lake. Another island, Suursaari (62°5′28″N 28°59′28″E / 62.09111°N 28.99111°E) in Hanhijärvi, is also located in Sääminginsalo, and is about half the size of Kokkosaari. |
Unnamed | Lake Chaunoy (Lac du Chaunoy)[9] | René-Levasseur Island | Manicouagan Reservoir | Canada | 0.44 | 51°33′5″N 68°49′8″W / 51.55139°N 68.81889°W | René-Levasseur Island is an artificial island, formed when the Manicouagan reservoir was flooded in 1970. There are also more than 10 other smaller islands in Lake Chaunoy, the largest of which is less than a tenth of the size of the one listed here. |
Treasure Island | Lake Mindemoya | Manitoulin Island | Lake Michigan–Huron | Canada | 0.4 | 45°45′50″N 82°10′41″W / 45.76389°N 82.17806°W | Largest natural island on a lake on an island on a lake. |
Kakawaie Island | Lake Kagawong | Manitoulin Island | Lake Michigan–Huron | 0.24 | 45°48′45″N 82°18′22″W / 45.81250°N 82.30611°W | ||
Ryan Island[10] | Siskiwit Lake | Isle Royale | Lake Superior | United States | 0.141 | 48°0′36″N 88°46′15″W / 48.01000°N 88.77083°W | Largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world (Lake Superior) |
Unnamed | Second Lake | Drummond Island | Lake Michigan–Huron | United States | 0.044 | 46°03′2″N 83°35′55″W / 46.05056°N 83.59861°W | |
Unnamed[11] | Mackaysee Lake | Chambers Island | Green Bay, Lake Michigan | United States | 0.009 | 45°11′41″N 87°20′43″W / 45.19472°N 87.34528°W | |
Unnamed | Frith Lake | Kelvin Island | Lake Nipigon | Canada | 0.0013 | 49°52′29″N 88°40′53″W / 49.87472°N 88.68139°W | |
Piiroonsaari[8] | Saravesi | Kotasaari | Kallavesi | Finland | 0.22 | 62°50′41″N 28°4′36″E / 62.84472°N 28.07667°E| Kotasaari is considered an island, as it is separated from one side by an artificial canal (Summa canal). | |
Suurisaari[8] | Oininki | Äitsaari | Saimaa | Finland | 0.14 | 61°18′57″N 28°38′1″E / 61.31583°N 28.63361°E | |
Ukonsaari[8] | Kulkemus | Partalansaari | Pihlajavesi (Saimaa) | Finland | 0.12 | 61°40′9″N 28°23′43″E / 61.66917°N 28.39528°E | |
Unnamed | Lake Cancy | René-Levasseur Island | Manicouagan Reservoir | Canada | 0.011 | 51°33′21″N 68°50′52″W / 51.55583°N 68.84778°W | |
Unnamed | Lac des Pigamons | Îlots Walcott | Lake Mistassini | Canada | 0.0002 | 51°07′18″N 73°21′34″W / 51.12167°N 73.35944°W | |
unnamed | unnamed | Wilson island | Great Slave Lake | Canada | 0.011 | 61°50′7″N 112°46′57″W / 61.83528°N 112.78250°W | |
Raaskasaari | Kylliönjärvi | Viljakansaari | Pihlajavesi (Saimaa) | Finland | 0.05 | 61°33′53″N 28°22′56″E / 61.56472°N 28.38222°E | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Kållandsö | Vänern | Sweden | 0.0027 | 58°41′52″N 13°11′18″E / 58.69778°N 13.18833°E | There is a second island in the lake, almost the exact same size |
Ösjöholmen | Ösjön | Ammerön | Revsundssjön | Sweden | 0.008 | 62°51′57″N 15°10′23″E / 62.86583°N 15.17306°E | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Tynnelsö | Mälaren | Sweden | 0.0005 | 59°25′1″N 17°04′44″E / 59.41694°N 17.07889°E | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Unnamed | Lake Kovdozero | Russia | 0.0162 | 66°45′23″N 31°58′37″E / 66.75639°N 31.97694°E | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Shaganappie Island | Wollaston Lake | Canada | 0.0066 | 58°22′22″N 102°57′51″W / 58.37278°N 102.96417°W | |
Unnamed | Calder Lake | Malcolm Island | Reindeer Lake | Canada | 0.0154 | 56°58′24″N 102°8′1″W / 56.97333°N 102.13361°W | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Ispatinow Island | Cree Lake | Canada | 0.00019 | 57°27′40″N 106°40′47″W / 57.46111°N 106.67972°W | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Blanchet Island | Great Slave Lake | Canada | 0.01 | 61°59′40″N 112°30′56″W / 61.99444°N 112.51556°W | Several small islands in this lake |
unnamed island | Vanooyen Lake | Shakespeare Island | Lake Nipigon | Canada | 0.0182 | 49°39′36″N 88°24′10″W / 49.66000°N 88.40278°W | There is a second, smaller island in this lake. |
Unnamed | Margaret Lake | Elk Island | God's Lake | Canada | 0.00095 | 54°39′32″N 94°10′44″W / 54.65889°N 94.17889°W | Several small islands in this lake |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Ile Guillaume Couture | Lac Mistassini | Canada | 0.0017 | 50°55′1″N 73°37′32″W / 50.91694°N 73.62556°W | |
unnamed | unnamed | Ile Tchapahipane | Lac Mistassini | Canada | 0.00125 | 51°4′34″N 73°25′25″W / 51.07611°N 73.42361°W | |
unnamed island | unnamed lake | Pie Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.0086 | 48°13′58″N 89°3′26″W / 48.23278°N 89.05722°W | Two islands of similar size are in this lake |
unnamed | Muir Lake | St Ignace Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.00325 | 48°48′28″N 88°2′3″W / 48.80778°N 88.03417°W | |
unnamed | Antler Lake | St Ignace Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.0041 | 48°48′59″N 88°0′5″W / 48.81639°N 88.00139°W | Two islands of similar size are in this lake |
unnamed island | Williamson Lake | St Ignace Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.00425 | 48°48′4″N 88°1′39″W / 48.80111°N 88.02750°W | |
unnamed island | Molinski Lake | Simpson Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.01 | 48°49′13″N 87°42′51″W / 48.82028°N 87.71417°W | |
unnamed | Caribou Lake | Simpson Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.00465 | 48°45′51″N 87°39′33″W / 48.76417°N 87.65917°W | |
unnamed | Veronica Lake | Slate Islands | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.0065 | 48°39′28″N 86°59′23″W / 48.65778°N 86.98972°W | |
unnamed | Michi Lake | Michipicoten Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.0037 | 47°44′28″N 85°54′29″W / 47.74111°N 85.90806°W | There are 3 islands in total in this lake |
unnamed | Channel Lake | Michipicoten Island | Lake Superior | Canada | 0.0084 | 47°43′50″N 85°48′0″W / 47.73056°N 85.80000°W | A second, smaller island is immediately to the west of this one. |
unnamed | unnamed | unnamed | Knielinger See | Germany | 0.0003 | 49°01′52.5″N 8°18′34.3″E / 49.031250°N 8.309528°E | |
Unnamed | Unnamed | Wizard Island | Crater Lake | United States | |||
Not specified | Lac Civic | Île Bronson | Réservoir Cabonga | Canada | There are other islands in lakes on islands in Cabonga. |
Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands
Name | In lake | On island | In lake | On island | Country | Area (m2) |
Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
— | Not specified | Not specified | Nettilling Lake | Baffin Island | Canada | 40,000 | 66°41′15″N 70°28′48″W / 66.68750°N 70.48000°W | There are more islands in lakes on the 'level 2' island in Nettling Lake. |
— | — | — | — | Victoria Island | Canada | 16,000 | 69°47′32″N 108°14′26″W / 69.79222°N 108.24056°W | The sometimes cited name Inception Island is not an official name. |
— | Aek Natonang (Locally Sidihoni Lake[13]) | Samosir | Lake Toba | Sumatra | Indonesia | 13,125 | 2°33′52″N 98°53′0″E / 2.56444°N 98.88333°E | Two islands, the largest of which is 175 m by 75 m. |
— | — | Glover Island| | Grand Lake | Newfoundland | Canada | 7,500 | 48°47′48″N 57°39′28″W / 48.79667°N 57.65778°W | There are several (at least seven) other, even smaller, islets in the lake |
— | Unnamed | Glover Island | Grand Lake | Newfoundland | Canada | 2,300 | 48°43′8″N 57°46′23″W / 48.71889°N 57.77306°W | In a lake 11 km south west to the lake that contains the larger island. There are no other island in this island's lake |
— | — | — | Meelpaeg Reservoir | Newfoundland | Canada | 100 | 48°18′44″N 56°30′48″W / 48.31222°N 56.51333°W | There are 3 other smaller islands in the same lake. |
unnamed island | Arethusa Pool | Mou Waho | Lake Wānaka | South Island | New Zealand | 225 | 44°33′15″S 169°05′3″E / 44.55417°S 169.08417°E | There are two islands in this lake, both less than 25 m across. |
— | — | Eilean Sùbhainn | Loch Maree | Great Britain | United Kingdom | 225 | 57°41′24″N 5°29′9″W / 57.69000°N 5.48583°W | Two islets, each of which is 15m by 15m |
— | — | — | Kooryet Lake | Banks Island (British Columbia) | Canada | ~100 | 53°21′7″N 129°59′30″W / 53.35194°N 129.99167°W | A number of small islets, the largest of which is only 10m across |
— | — | Samosir | Lake Toba | Sumatra | Indonesia | 400 | 2°38′11″N 98°50′14″E / 2.63639°N 98.83722°E | |
— | — | — | Jubilee Lake | Newfoundland | Canada | 20 | 48°3′50″N 55°10′24″W / 48.06389°N 55.17333°W | Several small islets, the largest of which is about 5 m across |
— | — | Cayo pajaro | Laguna de Leche | Cuba | Cuba | 832 | 22°13′31″N 78°40′2″W / 22.22528°N 78.66722°W | There are several other islets in the lake, all about half the area of the specified islet. |
Until 2020,[14] Vulcan Point was an island that existed in Main Crater Lake on Volcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon in the Philippines.[15] Main Crater Lake evaporated during the 2020 Taal Volcano eruption,[14] but the water in Taal Lake has returned and has a new island. Vulcan Point became a peninsular.
Islands in lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes
Only one lake is known to have such islands.[citation needed]
Name | In lake | On island | In lake | On island | In lake | Country | Size
(km2) |
Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manar | Unnamed | Unnamed | Unnamed | Unnamed | Lake Yathkyed | Canada | 62°39′04″N 97°47′14″W / 62.65111°N 97.78722°W | [16] |
Moose Boulder was claimed to exist in the seasonal pond of Moose Flats on Ryan Island in Siskiwit Lake on Isle Royale in Lake Superior in the United States.[17] In 2020, an expedition to the island found that it was a hoax, as apparently was the seasonal pond.[18]
Recursive lakes
Lakes on islands
Only a few notable examples are listed.
Lakes on islands in lakes
Lakes on islands in lakes on islands
Name | On island | In lake | On island | Country | Size (km2) | Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unnamed | Unnamed | Nettilling Lake | Baffin Island | Canada | 1.55 | 66°23′15″N 69°38′41″W / 66.38750°N 69.64472°W | |
Unnamed | Glover Island | Grand Lake | Newfoundland | Canada | 1.40 | 48°48′9″N 57°39′41″W / 48.80250°N 57.66139°W | |
Arethusa Pool | Mou Waho | Lake Wānaka | South Island | New Zealand | 0.05 | 44°33′15″S 169°05′02″E / 44.5541°S 169.0838°E | |
Unnamed lake | unnamed island | Jubilee Lake | Newfoundland | Canada | 0.025 | 48°3′50″N 55°10′24″W / 48.06389°N 55.17333°W | |
Unnamed lake | unnamed island | Mölnorträsk | Fårö | Sweden | 0.00006 | 57°55′45″N 19°08′29″E / 57.92917°N 19.14139°E | Extremely small |
Unnamed lake | Unnamed island | Unnamed lake | Baffin Island | Canada | small | 70°41′14″N 80°34′18″W / 70.68722°N 80.57167°W | |
Molemole | Motu'a'ali | Motu Si'i | Niuafo'ou | Tonga | 0.02 | 15°35′42″S 175°38′57″W / 15.594888°S 175.649157°W | |
Not specified | Sandey | Þingvallavatn | Iceland | Iceland | |||
Not specified | Gatter Lake | Lake Hazen | Ellesmere Island | Canada | Northernmost lake of its kind in the world. |
Lakes on islands in lakes on islands in lakes
Only one such lake is known.[citation needed]
Name | On island | In lake | On island | In lake | Country | Size | Coordinates | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unnamed | Not Specified | Not Specified | Not Specified | Lake Yathkyed | Canada | 0.013 | 62°39′5.8″N 97°47′11.8″W / 62.651611°N 97.786611°W | There is, even further, an island in that lake, making it the only such island in the world that has been discovered so far. |
See also
- List of endorheic basins
- Volcanic crater lake
- List of islands by area
- List of lakes by area
- List of islands by population
Notes
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