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Afinger lake, also known as a fjord lakeortrough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by a morainic dam."[1][2][3] Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjordorsea-loch.

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Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables

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England

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Scotland

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Loch Maree

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  1. ^ Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.
  • ^ Whittow (1984), 193.
  • ^ Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.
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