# Are there any lakes within lakes within lakes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 7, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186 "2007-06-07T22:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/21 "2007-06-08T19:17:26Z")
> [@](#): > > (Or just North America, if one considers that the Panama Canal creates two large islands.) If you want to get really nitpicky about it, North America isn’t just one island, either. There’s at least one “lake” ([Lake Isa](http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/roads_routes/old_faithful_to_west_thumb.php), in Yellowstone; really more of a marshy pond) which sits right smack on the Continental Divide, and drains both to the East and the West. So Lake Isa, together with the river systems it drains into, would divide North America into at least two islands, as would any other lake with the same property. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/22 "2007-06-08T21:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] I once stood on a small island in the middle of Lake Desor surrounded by Isle Royale surrounded by Lake Superior. [/QUOTE] You should have upped the recursion by standing in an inflatable pool, with a drink in your hand, with an olive in it - with a little pool of drink in the hole in the olive, and something small - say a piece of pimiento floating in it. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/23 "2007-06-08T21:12:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You should have upped the recursion by standing in an inflatable pool, with a drink in your hand, with an olive in it - with a little pool of drink in the hole in the olive, and something small - say a piece of pimiento floating in it. [/QUOTE] And on the pimiento is a droplet on which is floating a speck of dust… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/24 "2007-06-16T15:05:32Z")
[This site](http://www.elbruz.org/islands/Islands%20and%20Lakes.htm) should preempt any further discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/25 "2007-06-16T15:23:05Z")
I don’t know… it didn’t the first time somebody posted it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CJOK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@CJOK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJOK)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/26 "2007-06-16T16:26:46Z")
Yes, they are called puddles! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/27 "2007-06-16T18:12:23Z")
[QUOTE=CJOK] Yes, they are called puddles! [/QUOTE] I knew a dog named Puddles, once. It’s a funny story how he got that name, stop me if you’ve heard this… ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186/28 "2007-06-16T19:50:56Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You should have upped the recursion by standing in an inflatable pool, with a drink in your hand, with an olive in it - with a little pool of drink in the hole in the olive, and something small - say a piece of pimiento floating in it. [/QUOTE] If only I had that stuff then. At the time I was on a camping trip with my dad in the middle of what we now refer to as ‘The Bataan Death March’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-lakes-within-lakes-within-lakes/407186.md?page=1)