My brother says that NO LAKE has a river connected to it. I find this hard to believe that no river originates from anything that could be considered a Lake.
I was sure that the Great Lakes were connected to the ocean and therefore blew his “Every Lake is Land Locked” theory out of the water (no pun intended) but since it’s connected by man-made Canals and not rivers, he wins that one.
Unless there was some sort of psuedo river or stream or… shit I’ll take babbling brook at this point! Was there something there before the canals were dug?
Please someone tell me of a Lake with a river attached, or a river that flows from a lake to the ocean.
Is every lake completely land-locked (besides man-made routes)?
That’s ridiculous. Near Charleston, SC there are several rivers which flow from a lake into the Atlantic: the North Santee, the South Santee, and the Cooper. The lake is Lake Marion.
The Chicago River (both branches) used to flow from Lake Michigan until engineers reversed its course.
Uh, no, he doesn’t. Before there was a St. Lawrence Seaway, the St. Lawrence River still connected the Great Lakes to the ocean. It was, in fact, a navigable river. They may have built canals around the river, but it’s still a river. What do you think happens to all the water when they close the Seaway every winter? It doesn’t just stay there.
The Mackenzie River connects a number of lakes to the Arctic Ocean, including the gigantic Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes.
The Nelson River connects Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay.
Those are just big rivers in Canada I found in a five minute search. You should buy your brother an atlas for Christmas.
The Saint Lawrence river runs from Lake Ontario right out to the Atlantic. There may be a few man-made locks and whatnot to facilitate shipping, but long before humans came along, that river was draining that lake.
His claim that every lake is land-locked is true, by definition, since a lake is an enclosed body of fresh water. The doesn’t mean all lakes are stagnant puddles, though. The fresh water runs out to the ocean, mixes with the salt water, evaporates (leaving the salt behind) and falls over the land as freshwater rain, accumulating into rivers that empty into lakes and continue the cycle.
How about the Yahara watershed. The Yahara River flows into Lake Mendota (in Madison, WI), then from Mendota to Lake Monona, and from Monona to Lakes Wingra and Waubesa. It eventually flows into the Mississippi, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Lots of rivers are connected to lakes. The Mississippi, the Nile, and others named above, for starters. Almost every lake in California has rivers flowing in and out of it. Those that don’t are supplied and drained underground, or are brackish – a lake with no feeders is called a “puddle.”
Nitpick: Actually, it used to flow into Lake Michicagan. The flow was reversed because the river was so polluted, it was polluting the lake where Chicago gets it’s drinking water.
Reversing the flow sent the pollution on down to St. Louis, which the Missourians did not appreciate.
The Nile is fed by three main rivers, the Blue Nile rises in Ethiopia and joins the White Nile at Kartoum. The White Nile which flows out of Lake Victoria, through lakes Kvega and Albert. And the Atabara which also rises in Ethiopia and joins at Barbar in Sudan, just south of the 5th Cataract.
According to the Britannica the White Nile’s headwaters flow into Lake Victoria but none of those streams are called a “Nile.”
The Nile is called the longest river in the world. However that length is composed of the Nile proper and the White Nile. According to Isaac Asimov, by that reasoning the combination of the Mississipi up the the Missouri junction and out the Missouri to Montana is longer.
Sorry but Isaac Asimov is talking nonsense, in that case. The combined Mississippi-Missouri system is only about 3,740 miles long.
The “longest river” debate is solely between the Amazon and the Nile, both more than 4,000 miles long. Most sources (ahem) agree that the Nile shades it, although of course the Amazon is many many times bigger in terms of volume.
I thought lakes typically had a river… I mean, if there’s a big hole in the ground you’d expect it to fill with rainwater eventually, and then overflow - this water would then flow downhill “a river.” Oh well, I should have concentrated in geography.
I can walk up and down the Lake Superior beach that’s 1/2 mile from where I sit right now, and have to dodge a river, creek, or stream every half mile or so. There are a LOT of waterways - big and small - that drain into Lake Superior.
