How far can lakes be?

Question

like miles? are there many lakes that big?

Answer 1

There are hundreds of lakes that are 5 miles or more in one dimension.  Many of them are manmade reservoirs, but they are still freshwater lakes.  

a 2000 acre lake, mentioned here

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakemapping/d...

is over 3 square miles or roughly 1x3 miles or bigger.

access many lakes

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/inde...

Upper Red Lake, which shows up on even small maps of Minnesota is 107800+ acres or 168 sq miles or equivalent to a square over 40 miles on a side.

Answer 2

The longest lake in the world-The Caspian Sea- is about 745 miles across so yes there are really big lakes.

Answer 3

A ton of lakes are HUGE including:

Caspian Sea (143,000 square miles)

The 5 Great Lakes

Answer 4

Ummmm... The Great Lakes amoung NUMEROUS others

Huron

Ontario

Michigan

Erie

Superior

Answer 5

Hundreds of miles, actually.

Great Lakes:

Lake Superior - 350 miles long, 160 miles wide

Lake Michigan - 307 miles long, 118 miles wide

Lake Huron - 206 miles long, 152 miles wide

Lake Erie - 241 miles long, 57 miles wide

Lake Ontario - 193 miles long, 53 miles wide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Great...

Lake Michigan pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkys_joi...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooosey2000...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinkr/200...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86693975@N0...