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HORNINGDALS LAKE
Horningdals lake is the West coast biggest and is the deepest lake in
Europe. It lies at 52 meters above sea level and is 514 meters deep. The deepest
part lies 460 meters under sea level. The water is never green as many of the
lakes on the West coast, but limpid and blue. That is because there are no
glaciers nearby. It is the clay from the glaciers that give the famous green
colour to the water. Through thousands of years the ice has formed the landscape
into valleys, lakes and fjords. Some scientists believe that the sea level went
up to Horningdals lake before last ice age, and geological researches has proved
that it went even 15 meters further up (55 meters above today's sea level).
Big areas of the lake floor lies under 500 meters. From the shape of the mountain on the North side, it is easy to see that the water must be deep. The mountain drops directly into the water, and it looks like the mountain is drowning in water. Some scientists say that there are underground saltwater lakes on the bottom of the Horningdals lake, rests from when the sea level was 55 meter higher.
The Caspian sea, is the worlds largest lake and lies on the border to Europe. It is not counted as an European lake, but is deeper that the Horningdals lake.
These are the five deepest lakes in Europe:
1. Horningdals lake (Norway) 514 m
2. Sals lake in Nord-Trøndelag (Norway) 464 m
3. Tinn lake in Telemark (Norway) 460 m
4. Mjøsa, Norway's largest lake 449 m
5. Lago di Como in Northern-Italy 410 m
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