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Lake Victoria. / 45.88194°N 95.33250°W / 45.88194; -95.33250. Lake Victoria is a lake in Douglas County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] Lake Victoria was named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. [2]
Michael Diethelm is believed to be the first settler in Victoria after setting up a shelter for his wife and two children in 1851 near the present-day St. Victoria Church. The city is named after the church, built on 30 acres (120,000 m 2) of land just north of Lake Bavaria in 1857. A year later, steamboats from St. Paul began bringing ...
80001981 [1] Added to NRHP. January 4, 1980. Laketown Moravian Brethren's Church (also known as Lake Auburn Moravian Church) is a historic church on County Highway 11 in Victoria, Minnesota, United States. The congregation was organized on October 31, 1858, at the house of John Holtmeier. In 1860 a log church was built on land that Holtmeier ...
For example, there are more than 200 Mud Lakes, 150 Long Lakes, and 120 Rice Lakes. [4] All but four of Minnesota's 87 counties ( Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone and Rock) contain at least one natural lake. [1] Minnesota's lakes provide 44,926 miles of shoreline, more than the combined lake (~32,000 mi) and coastal (3,427 mi) shorelines of California.
34 feet (10 m) [1] Surface elevation. 940 feet (290 m) [2] Settlements. Victoria, Minnesota, Shorewood, Minnesota. Lake Virginia is a lake in Carver and Hennepin counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [3] Lake Virginia was named after the state of Virginia, the native home of a share of the early settlers. [4]
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish . Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map.
In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth-largest continental lake, containing about 2,424 km 3 (1.965 × 10 9 acre⋅ft) of water. [7] [10] Lake Victoria occupies a shallow depression in Africa. The lake has an average depth of 40 m (130 ft) and a maximum depth of 80–81 m (262–266 ft).
Victoria Falls ( Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and animals. It is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe [2] and is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a ...