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Echo's Newton Takes a Spin! Sighteseeing at Jinga Shire gate in Lake Biwa, Japan. I A AS Lake Biwa J A P A N Hiking around Lake Titicaca and “Hi from Lake Biwa in Japan! Creepy... a legend says a giant carp eats people who a Peruvian girl at the market. drown in this lake! Do people tell any weird stories about Lake Champlain?” RI AME CA H Swimming at Pictured Rocks T National Lakeshore. U P a E O Lake R S U Titicac & “Whew! I had to climb to 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) TH A B M A R O I E V L I O R N I above sea level to see Lake Titicaca! How many times Lake C A Superior higher is that than Lake Champlain’s elevation?” A S C U A N & A D Running along the shore A of Lake Issyk-kul. “Hmm… If Lake Champlain ON is 120 miles long and Lake WT TAK Superior is 2.9 times longer E ES than Lake Champlain, how N S A long is Lake Superior?” ’ S O math P H I Temple festival near Lake Baikal. science N C E ! SIA “It’s so cool that the A R U social studies E L word for lake here s Lake kul a is “kul!” What are K k e Issyk- R Y G some other words k Y e S N T A a for Lake? ” C language arts L “It was so great to see Lake Baikal’s h freshwater seals! Can you name some a ’s m ld mammals that live in Lake Champlain? pl or Are any endangered?” ain to the W SIA A R U Meeting the Lake Issyk-kul game E R warden and his family. U S Lake S I A N Baikal N O I F T E A D R Major World Lakes E Lake Baikal’s seals are Great Slave called “nerpa.” Great Bear Peipsi Hovsgol Baikal Superior Aral Sea Constance Ohrid Khanka Great Salt Champlain Prespa Sevan IssykKul Tahoe Caspian Sea Biwa Dead Sea Kinneret Dianchi Bhopal Chapala Chilika “Wow—500,000 A Chad Tana Laguna de Bay IC TA Tonle Sap R N Cocibolca Maracaibo Lanao Bosumtwi Eastern Rift F Z Victoria Toba tons of fi sh are A A Tucurui Valley Lakes Tanganyika N Malawi Lake I A Titicaca Kariba caught from Lake ia A Y , N Eyre Victor E U K Victoria each year! G A & N D A Commonwealth of Australia-Geoscience Australia (1990), ESRI (2003). Australia (1990), Australia-Geoscience of Commonwealth That’s more than Map Source: Lehner, B. & P. Doll (2003), Birkett, C.M & I.M. Mason (1985), Doll (2003), C.M & I.M. Mason (1985), Birkett, B. & P. Lehner, Map Source: Vostok any other lake in “Help me locate all the lakes I visited on the map. the world! What species of fi sh can you What lakes would you visit?” catch from Lake Champlain?” Meeting some fi shermen on Lake Victoria. For more information about Lake Champlain and world lakes contact the Lake Champlain Basin Program, 54 West Shore Road, Grand Isle, VT 05458. Or call (802) 372-3213 (800) 468-5227 in NY & VT. Visit www.lcbp.org online. NEWTon is the trademarked mascot of ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain (www. echovermont.org), on Vermont’s Burlington Waterfront. NEWTon represents the Lake Champlain Basin’s red-spotted newt. Photo credits: Lake Titicaca: A. Souder; Lake Biwa: Udo Gattenlohner; Lake Issyk-kul: Lisa Borre/LakeNet; Lake Baikal: BINM, Lake Champlain Oleg Nekhayev (2002) and ISC Moscow; Lake Victoria: LakeNet; Lake Superior: Lisa Borre/LakeNet. Basin Program This poster was funded by US EPA-New England under grant #X7-98183801. It is printed on recycled paper with soy-based inks..
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