—Legend has it giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox created Minnesota's lakes with their footprints. But the lakes were actually created by melting glaciers!
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Minnesota is often called the land of 10,000 lakes, but the actual number is closer to 15,000, depending on the source of the count. There are 11,842 lakes ten acres in area or larger. Counties without natural lakes: Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone, and Rock.
Alaska is the state with the most naturally formed lakes, containing 3,197 lakes and over 3 million unnamed lakes. Many of the lakes are unnamed because of the size of Alaska and the remote nature of much of the state.
Lakes abound in North America. Most of them are products of glaciation, which has had a vast effect on the continental drainage pattern—notably by widening the passes through the northern Appalachians and the Cordilleras and by forming big lakes in ice-deepened basins.
Crater Lake (1,943 feet [592 meters])Crater Lake, located in the Cascade Range in Oregon, is the deepest lake in the United States. It is also a relatively young lake, having been formed about 7,700 years ago when a massive volcano called Mount Mazama collapsed following an eruption.
Finland is called ''the land of a thousand lakes,'' but at last count there were 187,888 of them - more lakes in relation to a country's size than any other.
The glaciation in Finland was a huge factor in the creation of the lakes that exist today. The sheets of ice moving across the surface of the Earth created divots, gouges and craters that filled up with melted waters after the glaciers receded.
Lake Michigan, the second largest Great Lake (by volume) and fifth largest lake in the world (by surface area), is a globally significant ecosystem. Stretching over 300 miles, it is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.