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I note this list is by continent and appears to make no provision for lakes on islands that are not continents. Also as Oceania is not a continent but a region of continental islands, I have subdivided the New Zealand portion of Oceania, on the assumption that the other lakes are in Australia. It would be helpful if the country or countries around each lake were also indicated as this would assist locating the lake. -- kiwiinapanic 00:34, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)

If you include man-made lakes from dams, please add Lake Karapiro to the North Island of New Zealand, and Lake Oberon to Australia (in the state of New South Wales). Actually there's also a natural? Lake Oberon in Tasmania, Australia, containing the endangered Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis) from Lake Pedder.

zig 01:16, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It would probably be better to also arrange the U.S. lakes by state before the list gets too unwieldy. --Our Bold Hero 18:29, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Organized the lakes with their states...

I organized the lakes with their states, but should each state be separated into their own sections or is the list fine? It wouldn't be a hard thing to do (especially since I've done all the work of organizing the states). All that needs to be done is a simple surrounding the states with a few equal signs and that'd be that. DannyMac

[edit] Does This Include Underground Lakes?

Scallop 19:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reorganization

Grouped lakes by country and, for the U.S., by state. Hopefully I didn't step on anyone's toes adding those plusses. I've linked to "main articles" listing lakes for individual areas whenever possible, but if I've missed one (or there should be one) add it in. I also thought it would be wise to add something about "major or important" at the top to keep this under control. Now should we cull some of these dead links (specifically the U.S. state ones) or leave them be? --Our Bold Hero 02:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greek lakes

I removed a list of Greek lakes from the middle of the African section - this list seems to be identical with List of lakes in Greece which is linked from the European section, so no information was lost. It looks as if the major Greek lakes are listed in this article already (under Europe!). Walkerma 02:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lake ronkonkama

there is a lake in long island new york called "lake ronkonkoma" shouldn't that be added?-hotspot

[edit] US lakes

Since the List of US Lakes was taking up a third of the article and making it too unwieldy, I've moved them off into a new article List of lakes in the United States. I'll make that a List of Lists page and eventually pull each state's lakes into a page of it's own (and probably tabulate it). I'd like to keep a few US lakes on the List of lakes page as the most notable (biggest, deepest, longest etc), but my US geography knowledge is restricted to the inside of LAX so some assitance in that respect would be appreciated. Malathos 06:28, 22 August 2007 (UTC)