Crater-lakes Sentence Examples

The geography of the Western province includes many interesting features, the in many ways peculiar Albert Nyanza (q.v.), the great snowy range of Ruwenzori (q.v.), the dense Semliki, Budonga, Mpanga and Bunyaraguru forests, the salt lakes and salt springs of Unyoro and western Toro, the innumerable and singularly beautiful crater lakes of Toro and Ankole, the volcanic region of Mfumbiro (where active and extinct volcanoes rise in great cones to altitudes of from 11,000 to nearly 15,000 ft.), and the healthy plateaus of Ankole, which are in a lesser degree analogous in climate and position, and the Nandi plateau on the east of Victoria Nyanza.

The drainage channels which were dug for the various crater lakes in the neighbourhood of Rome are also interesting in this regard.

That of the Alban Lake is the most famous; but all the other crater lakes are similarly provided.

The only lake of any size is the Laacher See, the largest of the "maare" or extinct crater lakes of the Eifel.

The group of lakes called Fiskiviitn (or Veidivotn), which lie in a desolate region to the west of Vatnajokull, consist for the most part of crater lakes.

This and other crater lakes are said never to be frozen over.