Angle Tarn (Patterdale)

Angle Tarn is a lake in Cumbria, England, about a mile east of Hartsop. Located at an altitude of 479m (1571 feet), the lake has an area of 5.9 hectares (14.6 acres), measures 385m by 260m (1260 by 850 feet), with a maximum depth of 9m (30 feet).[1] The lake is very distinctive in that it resembles a fish hook in shape. It contains "two rocky islets and a small broken peninsula."[2]

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  1. ↑ "Angle Tarn (Patterdale)". f22.org.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Otley, Jonathan (1830). A concise description of the English lakes, and adjacent mountains: with general directions to tourists: notices of the botany, mineralogy, and geology of the district; observations on meteorolgy; the floating island in Derwent lake; and black-lead mine in Borrowdale. The author. p. 32. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Coordinates: 54°31′11″N 2°54′2″W / 54.51972°N 2.90056°W