Lake Nojiri

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Lake Nojiri 野尻湖
Lake and Mt. Kurohime
Location	Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture
Coordinates	36°49′N 138°12′ECoordinates: 36°49′N 138°12′E
Basin countries	Japan
Surface area	4.56 km²
Average depth	21 m
Max. depth	38.5 m
Water volume	0.096 m³
Shore length¹	16 km
Surface elevation	657 m
¹ Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Lake Nojiri (野尻湖, Nojiri-ko^?) is in the town of Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Second to Lake Suwa among lakes in Nagano Prefecture, Nojiri is a resort, the location of the first pumped-storage hydroelectricity in Japan, and the site of a paleolithic excavation.

1 Data
2 Fishing
3 Tategahana Paleolithic Site
4 See also
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Data

Transparency: 5–7 m

[edit] Fishing

The lake rarely freezes over in the winter. "Dome boats," outfitted with stoves, catch smelt (Hypomesus nipponensis) in Lake Nojiri.

[edit] Tategahana Paleolithic Site

In 1946, a tusk of Palaeoloxodon naumanni (named in honor of the O-yatoi gaikokujin Heinrich Edmund Naumann, 1854–1927) was discovered accidentally. In 1962, excavations began at the edge and on the bottom of the lake. The location was a promontory, on the western shore, known as Tategahana. Discoveries included implements of stone and bone, fossils of Palaeoloxodon naumanni, and of deer. Analyses of diatoms, pollen, paleomagnetism, and volcanic ash place the site, with its fossils of humans and megafauna, in the Paleolithic, the Pleistocene, about 40,000 years ago. Kondo et al. conclude that Tategahana is a "kill-butchering site." ^[1]