Lake Harrison

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Lake Harrison is the name given to a huge lake that in parts of the Ice Age covered much of the Midlands in England around Warwick and Birmingham and Leicester. It was formed when ice from Wales and the north blocked the drainage and trapped a lake between the ice front and the Cotswolds. Finally the lake made two overflow courses:

Southeast across the Fenny Compton Gap through the Cherwell valley into the Thames. This course has been abandoned.
Southwest. This course became permanent and is now the River Avon which flows into the Severn, whereas before the Ice Age the area drained northeastwards.

Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa

Lake Makgadikgadi

Asia

Europe

North America

Nelson River Drainage	Proglacial lakes of Minnesota Lake Agassiz Lake Bassano Lake Souris

James Bay Drainage	Lake Ojibway Tyrrell Sea

Great Lakes	Lake Admiralty Lake Algonquin Lake Chicago Lake Chippewa Lake Duluth Early Lake Erie Lake Frontenac Lake Iroquois Mackinac Falls Lake Maumee Lake Minong Glacial Lake Nipising Glacial Lake Saginaw Lake Stanley Lake Tonawanda Lake Whittlesey Champlain Sea

Columbia River System	Lake Bonneville Lake Columbia Lake Lahontan Lake Missoula

Upper Missouri River	Glacial Lake Circle Glacial Lake Cut Bank Glacial Lake Glendive Lake Great Falls Glacial Lake Jordan Glacial Lake Musselshell

Upper Mississippi Drainage	Kankakee Outwash Plain Lake Wisconsin

Ohio Drainage	Lake Monongahela Lake Tight Teays River

Hudson valley	Lake Albany Lake Passaic

New England	Lake Cape Cod Lake Connecticut Lake Hitchcock Lake Merrimack Lake Nantucket Sound Lake Stowe

California	Lake Cahuilla Lake Manly

South America

Lake Ballivián

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