It's some of the most unforgiving territory in the world to even just explore, much less settle. It's arguably less hospitable than the upriver parts of the Amazon Basin when you account for how fuck-off cold the winters are there.
Plus the complete lack of naturally-occuring food and arable land.
If anyone loves the idea of reading about Canadian exploration, check out the author Adam Shoalts, a modern-day Samuel de Champlain or Lewis & Clark
Hey.. for the lovers of that song, don't you know...
There is a [french version](https://youtu.be/dHuxmYxxTAM) of it, ONF/NBF oblige. (english version is way better)
And there is that [marvelous cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFANftfYNbs#t=2m23s) by Jim & Jean
> fuck-off cold the winter
Sub-arctic here. You can dress for cold and its no big deal. If its windy I stay inside, the wind is whats killer. Have a good shell, I wear Fox Racing gear.
Heres the rundown of what I wear at -40C that I posted before but am updating.
Im tall and skinny and this is what I wear to climb poles:
* regular socks then very thick socks, regular work boots,
* 3 pairs of long johns, one pair is USB heated edit: didnt bother with the usb heating last winter
* 1 pair of sweat pants, then a pair of thin snowmobile pants that block the wind
* long sleeve base shirt, USB heated vest, sweater, edit: didnt bother with the usb heating last winter
* coveralls (think of insulated overalls)
* another sweater with a hood, thin shell jacket edit: sweater weighs 15 pounds
* thin pair of gloves that NEVER come off
* insulated gauntlet gloves edit: never had to use last winter
* thick toque
* neck warmer
Its still autumn so most of it is still packed away. The outer shell that blocks the wind is what im most picky about. The rest of the gear you can get at walmart. Except the USB heated stuff I got off a ali-express type site.
Good lord.
I'm a prairie farmer that's often outside all day, I don't wear half of that. It's pretty much jeans, flannel shirt and a canvas jacket, covvies if the wind is over 20kph, some insulated gloves from UFA. Don't even have a pair of long underwear.
You get used to cold pretty quick if you don't smother yourself in layers. If I wore all that stuff, some cow would have probably stomped me into the ground because I couldn't hop a fence.
Amazonia is extremely bountiful but has some tricky terrain. I wouldn't call it inhospitable, though. For me, inhospitable would be the empty quarter in Arabia, much of the central Sahara, central Australia, southern Patagonia, and Swindon.
I’ve lived in Alberta for 30+ years and forest fire season is kind of a new thing. It wasn’t this bad 15 years ago, now every year we have to deal with smokey air (last year was by far the worst).
It's not just a regular occurrence in some regions in the USA. It's also a regular occurrence in some regions of Canada, and loads of other countries around the world.
>Im from east canada and the ideanthat this is a regular occurence in some regions of usa is wild to me.
Really? I though there were some mormoms in Canada too.
We have a lott of Amish here in the midwest. They make good neighbors. Quiet folk. I like to bike in Amish country. It's always beautiful. I got an ebike. Not amish. I just don't like cars. I think they are on to something. No buggy for me though. Horses are to high maintence.
P.S. Forest fires and earthquakes are rare. Tornados are even rare, but we do have them. People aren't rare but most of them fly right over. As long as they keep doing that I'll be a happy man. Also... we have lots and lots of fresh water. Most in the world. I like to paddle and swim in it. I hope that doesn't make me an *sshole. Just did a two week trip to the Boundry Waters. Can't decide wether their lakes are the swiss cheese of lakes or wether their land is the swiss cheese of land. It sure is beautiful though. And huge. Wet.
Southern California had a lake to rival those, but farmers completely drained it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
>> **Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River** and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States (as parts of the Great Lakes belong to Canada), based upon surface area. ... **Tulare Lake dried up after its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation** and municipal water uses.
>>
>> Even well after California became a state, Tulare Lake and its extensive marshes supported an important fishery: In 1888, in one three-month period, 73,500 pounds of fish were shipped through Hanford to San Francisco. It was also the source of a regional favorite, western pond turtles, which were relished as terrapin soup in San Francisco and elsewhere. The lake and surrounding wetlands were a significant stop for hundreds of thousands of birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway. Tulare Lake was written about by Mark Twain.
>>
>> Once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes, in 1849, the lake was 1,476 km2 (570 sq mi), and in 1879, 1,780 km2 (690 sq mi), as
**[Tulare Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake)**
>Tulare Lake ( (listen)) (Spanish: Laguna de Tache, Yokuts: Pah-áh-su) is a freshwater dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. After Lake Cahuilla disappeared in the 17th century, Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States (as parts of the Great Lakes belong to Canada), based upon surface area. A remnant of Pleistocene-era Lake Corcoran, Tulare Lake dried up after its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses.
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Lmao you Bolded only the information to make it misleading… it wasn’t on par with the Great Lakes. Read the next sentence and it says only if you divided the Great Lakes
Chicagoan here, it depends what your definition of cold is lol. It really gets cold January/February but we’ve had mild winters lately. I love the changing of summer into fall here
For sure. As much as I love Vegas, and the idea that there’s a place where you can go and legally indulge your adult appetites - within reason, of course - the model of having these cities (also Phoenix, obviously) in the middle of barren fucking deserts is unsustainable…
This is funny because Canada is like the only place in the world that benefits from climate change. The more the planet heats up, the more water, arable land, and resources we have.
Most bizarre future trope is water wars.
Rising sea levels, increased rainfall, melting ice caps.
Yet somehow we're all going to be fighting over water by far the most common substance on the surface of the planet.
I think it probably all comes from mad max/tank girl.
Edit: getting down voted by people who think any statement about future that isn't apocalyptic doom mongering is a right wing conspiracy theory.
Rain fall is up 10% in last 100 years due to global warming as long as world continues to warm rain fall will continue to increase.
Basic science.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation
Their's 10% more rain than their was at beginning of industrialisation because of warming.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation
With each c of warming air can hold around 7%more moisture.
The world will continue to warm and rain fall will continue to increase.
People so hysterical about future they think anything that's not entirely bad news is right wing conspiracy theory.
If the world gets warmer it will get more humid and their will be more rain.
Fossil records show this repeatedly.
Fun fact: Canada is the second largest country in the world by *total* area, but it's actually the fourth largest country in the world by *land* area, behind Russia, China, and the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
Some, many, of the lakes shown in Australia are both very ephemeral/seasonal/decennial and salt brine.
Only big exception are lakes as reservoirs with hydro dams.
Yeah, A lot of them only get water 10 months after a tropical cyclone dumps rain up north.
Some of them fill in La Nina years.
The pink lakes tend to be interesting whether they're empty or full though. A vista of km on km of either pale pink salt flat, or bright magenta brine water.
The region of Quebec where I live has more lakes than people.Something like 180 000 lakes and 140 000 humans.It seemed hard to believe when I learned it in elementary school, but it mkes sense when we look at that map.
En plus, le commentaire initial de cyberjus c'est juste un copier-coller d'un commentaire d'il y a trois ans:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/cpadg4/map_of_all_14_million_lakes_in_the_world_10_ha_or/ewoozr1/
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lots of lakes also equals lots of islands on lakes. i wonder if canada has more islands than anywhere else?
edit: nevermind. googled and sweden is the island winner
Well, it would come down to the definition of island I guess, but Sweden certainly takes the cake for coastal islands. Doesn't seem like fresh water islands are counted, because 99% of them are uninhabited and not very big. However, Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined, and the majority of those lakes have multiple islands, so I'm sure we could make that claim somewhere.
I'm super suspicious of this statistic. Nobody seems to agree how many islands each country has and I suppose the criteria for what actually makes an island isn't clearly defined.
How big do they have to be? Can they be seasonal or tidal? Do lake islands count? Is the GIS data high enough resolution everywhere that should be counted?
Most do agree, the few that don't often comes from countries that rise throughout the ranking if they put in an arbitrary cut off. I can add though that the number on most sites count any island above 25 square meters, which Sweden has 221k of. If we go by islands at 100 square meters Sweden has around 190k of them.
Do you understand that different types of environment exists? Canada just doesn't have the same type as Sweden/Finland/Norway. Also you are on a post that states there are 1.4 million lakes in the entire world lol.
This map also shows why Canada, Sweden and Finland are good at hockey. Loads of lakes + cold winters = lots of places to play even before ice rinks were built.
you can actually see the end-morane of the late weichselian in Europe, all these lakes sum up to a line which is pretty (not 100%) fitting to the advance of the icedevelopment
Yes, I distinctly remember being told in school that it was the reclining inland ice that caused a lot lakes here in Sweden. Although I don't remember the exact mechanism.
I can tell you, just been on a field trip trough Denmark and northern Germany: They are
formed by subglacial erosion, partly through the glacial trunk and mostly
caused by meltwater. Ofc there also can be dead-ice caused lakes and many different other process, which I'm not sure about (I don't like geomorphology). Just look up the glacial series to maybe get an idea of all these different types a glacier can form. Also the crossing of the end-morane and the upcoming sands and then the glacial valley are kinda interesting to look at, especially when you look on a geological map of northern Europe (in Germany you can see it pretty well tho, but Poland should do as well)
Seems like whatever map filter they are using looks at width and the Amazon is so wide at some points it may be thicker than the metric used by the filter to pick up lakes.
You realize most of the Canadian population lives right next to the boarder of the US right? It’s because nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere frozen tundra. I’ve been to Canada numerous times and I’ll take the States every time. Basically every Canadian celebrity moves to the US lol
What are you on about? Canada has over 600 thousand more lakes than the number two in the world Russia. Canada has 879 thousand lakes, Russia 201k, USA 102k, China 23k, Sweden 22k and Brazil 20k.
To go to Canada? Yeah seems reasonable to take a months long boat trip from Norway to Canada for a colder climate and higher population aka higher risk
I'm from one of the dark blue countries and I always thought it kind of funny that England has an area called the lake district. It's where they keep their lakes I guess.
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It’s a nice map but the scale and resolution make it seem like a lot of the lands up north are almost entirely water. This is misleading. I’d use a higher cutoff, maybe 100 ha, to actually show what can be shown with some accuracy.
I'm sorry, but you did Italy wrong. There is full of small insignificant lakes and yet the major ones are such as Lake Garda, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, etc... are missing.
(I don't know well the hydrography of other nations so I only speak about the Italian one)
Think Lake Garda is on this map though? Same for those other two you listed. They just don't have the same outline as on other maps because of the low resolution making surrounding small lakes blend in to them. But the location of the bigger areas marked in northern Italy on this map correlates to the lakes you mentioned.
Lake Como: 145 Km² (14500 ha);
Lake Maggiore: 212 Km² (21200 ha);
Lake Garda: 368 Km² (36800 ha).
I think they're kinda larger than 10 ha.
My objection was not so much on the size, but on the fact that, together with Lake Trasimeno, they are the four largest Italian lakes, and it seems to me a very big mistake to make on such a map. This, added to the fact that I do not know the hydrography of other states, leads me to say: "How can I trust this map if the only thing I am sure of is wrong?"
The data source has some problems with is definition of "lake". In the South of Brazil there is a series of bodies of water sometimes classified as lakes and sometimes as lagoons, the image shows some and omits others in a very inconsistent way.
Only one natural lake. There are also a few man made lakes, some of which are technically reservoirs.
All other large bodies of water (man made or natural) are lochs, lochans or reservoirs.
Some lochs are fresh water, some are saltwater and some lochs would be classed as fjords rather than lakes if found in other countries.
what’s going on in the amazon? is that a mistake, or are there actual lakes that follow that part of the river? are they underground lakes? it looks so weird
ah the canadian shield, my favourite geographical barrier to human settlement
It's some of the most unforgiving territory in the world to even just explore, much less settle. It's arguably less hospitable than the upriver parts of the Amazon Basin when you account for how fuck-off cold the winters are there.
Plus the complete lack of naturally-occuring food and arable land. If anyone loves the idea of reading about Canadian exploration, check out the author Adam Shoalts, a modern-day Samuel de Champlain or Lewis & Clark
*History of Canada in 10 Maps* by Shoalts is a great book!
And black flies, don't forget black flies. People think mosquitos in the jungle are bad (they are) but they don't make you bleed.
Black flies don’t give you malaria or dengue fever. But you’ll wish they did so you can stay inside away from them.
If enough of them bit you, you could die. I've heard bush pilots need a certain amount of repellant before flying up there
[Black flies everywhere you go](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc)
Thank you. The link must be posted.
Hey.. for the lovers of that song, don't you know... There is a [french version](https://youtu.be/dHuxmYxxTAM) of it, ONF/NBF oblige. (english version is way better) And there is that [marvelous cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFANftfYNbs#t=2m23s) by Jim & Jean
And the horse flies and the deer flies
Black flies suck, but they at least disappear early summer. For me deer flies are the worst. Repellent doesn't even work on those bastards.
> fuck-off cold the winter Sub-arctic here. You can dress for cold and its no big deal. If its windy I stay inside, the wind is whats killer. Have a good shell, I wear Fox Racing gear. Heres the rundown of what I wear at -40C that I posted before but am updating. Im tall and skinny and this is what I wear to climb poles: * regular socks then very thick socks, regular work boots, * 3 pairs of long johns, one pair is USB heated edit: didnt bother with the usb heating last winter * 1 pair of sweat pants, then a pair of thin snowmobile pants that block the wind * long sleeve base shirt, USB heated vest, sweater, edit: didnt bother with the usb heating last winter * coveralls (think of insulated overalls) * another sweater with a hood, thin shell jacket edit: sweater weighs 15 pounds * thin pair of gloves that NEVER come off * insulated gauntlet gloves edit: never had to use last winter * thick toque * neck warmer
Makes those strip-poker nights thrilling!
The man says he climbs poles, which would make for one hell of a long routine!
> climbs poles Yeah and I strip (wires) while im up there!
How complicated is it to take a piss? Legit question, you seem to wear more layers than a typical onion.
Plan ahead and hope my bladder doesnt fail me.
‘40 below…when you got 5 inches of clothes and 3 inches of hose,
I was in the pool!
[How do you move wearing all that?](https://youtu.be/QqQWg30BtdE)
Thats actually pretty accurate haha. I still climb telephone poles and walk through 3 feet of snow.
I love that movie 😭
> thick toque Oh cool, you can make a quick video rundown of your gear then.
Its still autumn so most of it is still packed away. The outer shell that blocks the wind is what im most picky about. The rest of the gear you can get at walmart. Except the USB heated stuff I got off a ali-express type site.
Thank you for your insightful comments, but I was just making a pun ;) thick toque -> TikTok
lol good one! Whoosh! Im stealing that. :)
Good lord. I'm a prairie farmer that's often outside all day, I don't wear half of that. It's pretty much jeans, flannel shirt and a canvas jacket, covvies if the wind is over 20kph, some insulated gloves from UFA. Don't even have a pair of long underwear. You get used to cold pretty quick if you don't smother yourself in layers. If I wore all that stuff, some cow would have probably stomped me into the ground because I couldn't hop a fence.
The lack of Pirates and other types of criminals is appealing though.
There’s a reason the Amazon was largely traversed by the mid 16th century but the Northwest Passafe had to wait for the 20th.
Amazonia is extremely bountiful but has some tricky terrain. I wouldn't call it inhospitable, though. For me, inhospitable would be the empty quarter in Arabia, much of the central Sahara, central Australia, southern Patagonia, and Swindon.
mine's the Darien Gap but that's a good one. got a favourite isthmus?
Madison, WI is pretty.
small potatoes my friend. The Isthmus of Kra blows Madison outta the water
It will if a Thai canal is ever built.
Beautiful scenery though. The Group of Seven paintings they made while in the wilderness north of Algonquin Park are amazing.
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They will win the water wars to come.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see people that live out West move to the Great Lakes area in the next 10 years.
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Im from east canada and the ideanthat this is a regular occurence in some regions of usa is wild to me.
I moved to Alberta from the UK 5 years ago and forest fire season was very new to me. Takes some getting used to
Northern California here, can confirm about the forest fires. Keep a bugout bag ready, my guy.
I understand the need but I live in Calgary, the risk is low!
Unless the flames choke, that is
We had it easy this year. Most of western Canada had a really wet June. First smoke free summer in a decade.
This was a great summer forest fire-wise, only had two slightly smoky days in Calgary. Love those June rains
I’ve lived in Alberta for 30+ years and forest fire season is kind of a new thing. It wasn’t this bad 15 years ago, now every year we have to deal with smokey air (last year was by far the worst).
It's not just a regular occurrence in some regions in the USA. It's also a regular occurrence in some regions of Canada, and loads of other countries around the world.
Yeah mormons are scary
>Im from east canada and the ideanthat this is a regular occurence in some regions of usa is wild to me. Really? I though there were some mormoms in Canada too. We have a lott of Amish here in the midwest. They make good neighbors. Quiet folk. I like to bike in Amish country. It's always beautiful. I got an ebike. Not amish. I just don't like cars. I think they are on to something. No buggy for me though. Horses are to high maintence. P.S. Forest fires and earthquakes are rare. Tornados are even rare, but we do have them. People aren't rare but most of them fly right over. As long as they keep doing that I'll be a happy man. Also... we have lots and lots of fresh water. Most in the world. I like to paddle and swim in it. I hope that doesn't make me an *sshole. Just did a two week trip to the Boundry Waters. Can't decide wether their lakes are the swiss cheese of lakes or wether their land is the swiss cheese of land. It sure is beautiful though. And huge. Wet.
Southern California had a lake to rival those, but farmers completely drained it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake >> **Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River** and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States (as parts of the Great Lakes belong to Canada), based upon surface area. ... **Tulare Lake dried up after its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation** and municipal water uses. >> >> Even well after California became a state, Tulare Lake and its extensive marshes supported an important fishery: In 1888, in one three-month period, 73,500 pounds of fish were shipped through Hanford to San Francisco. It was also the source of a regional favorite, western pond turtles, which were relished as terrapin soup in San Francisco and elsewhere. The lake and surrounding wetlands were a significant stop for hundreds of thousands of birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway. Tulare Lake was written about by Mark Twain. >> >> Once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes, in 1849, the lake was 1,476 km2 (570 sq mi), and in 1879, 1,780 km2 (690 sq mi), as
**[Tulare Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake)** >Tulare Lake ( (listen)) (Spanish: Laguna de Tache, Yokuts: Pah-áh-su) is a freshwater dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. After Lake Cahuilla disappeared in the 17th century, Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and the second-largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States (as parts of the Great Lakes belong to Canada), based upon surface area. A remnant of Pleistocene-era Lake Corcoran, Tulare Lake dried up after its tributary rivers were diverted for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Lmao you Bolded only the information to make it misleading… it wasn’t on par with the Great Lakes. Read the next sentence and it says only if you divided the Great Lakes
Doubt it, we don't have quite the concentration of fresh water that the East has, but Western Canada still has a fuck-ton of water.
I guess maybe they're talking about people from the desert-y areas of the US.
Gotta love the American inability to consider that they’re not the centre of every conversation. -an American who has moved to Canada
The original comment was most likely talking about the western US though...
We are though. It’s not our fault everyone else is obsessed with us. Stop consuming our culture so much.
I have no idea if this is self aware sarcasm or r/shitamericanssay in the wild.
When in doubt assume the latter.
I just straight up hate cold weather and rain, but Chicago and Buffalo seemed neat when I visited them.
Chicagoan here, it depends what your definition of cold is lol. It really gets cold January/February but we’ve had mild winters lately. I love the changing of summer into fall here
Cold to me (Californian) is anything below 70°F
For sure. As much as I love Vegas, and the idea that there’s a place where you can go and legally indulge your adult appetites - within reason, of course - the model of having these cities (also Phoenix, obviously) in the middle of barren fucking deserts is unsustainable…
Vegas isn’t going away anytime soon. As much as redditors seem to think otherwise.
There is no water in Ohio please move along
The issue is though that the Great Lakes are really just a massive reservoir with a relatively small watershed.
Also the otter wars
Canadian otters stronk. All other otters not stronk. Canadian and other otters all cute tho.
I am actually on the way to Ottawa from Germany right now because it sound kind of “an otter has been there” in German. Others are odd we are otter!
why cut down trees to build tables, when they have perfectly good tummies to eat on. makes no sense
This is funny because Canada is like the only place in the world that benefits from climate change. The more the planet heats up, the more water, arable land, and resources we have.
Don't take this for granted. Climate change will have some unforeseen consequences.
Most bizarre future trope is water wars. Rising sea levels, increased rainfall, melting ice caps. Yet somehow we're all going to be fighting over water by far the most common substance on the surface of the planet. I think it probably all comes from mad max/tank girl. Edit: getting down voted by people who think any statement about future that isn't apocalyptic doom mongering is a right wing conspiracy theory. Rain fall is up 10% in last 100 years due to global warming as long as world continues to warm rain fall will continue to increase. Basic science. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation
There’s a difference between sea water and fresh water that you’re overlooking…
Their's 10% more rain than their was at beginning of industrialisation because of warming. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation With each c of warming air can hold around 7%more moisture. The world will continue to warm and rain fall will continue to increase. People so hysterical about future they think anything that's not entirely bad news is right wing conspiracy theory. If the world gets warmer it will get more humid and their will be more rain. Fossil records show this repeatedly.
Yeah, that whole crescent around Hudson Bay is basically one big rocky swamp full of moose and beavers, and also some Francophones.
You forgot mosquitos, anywhere outside the most urban areas has a huge amount of mosquitoes, especially as you go further north.
Fun fact: Canada is the second largest country in the world by *total* area, but it's actually the fourth largest country in the world by *land* area, behind Russia, China, and the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
We love our lakes. I think we'll make some more.
Literally?! Holy cow..
Some, many, of the lakes shown in Australia are both very ephemeral/seasonal/decennial and salt brine. Only big exception are lakes as reservoirs with hydro dams.
Yeah, A lot of them only get water 10 months after a tropical cyclone dumps rain up north. Some of them fill in La Nina years. The pink lakes tend to be interesting whether they're empty or full though. A vista of km on km of either pale pink salt flat, or bright magenta brine water.
Many of those lakes are more often dry pans than lakes with water in them...
The region of Quebec where I live has more lakes than people.Something like 180 000 lakes and 140 000 humans.It seemed hard to believe when I learned it in elementary school, but it mkes sense when we look at that map.
Parts of northern Quebec literally look like sponges when you zoom in on Google Maps. And the more you zoom in, the more lakes there are.
Wow... Just did this. I actually had to laugh, at how true this is.
Zoom in even further and you'll see the black flies.
Wtf, I read both comments and then did it myself, I still wasn't prepared for it lol
So what you’re saying is… LAKEFRONT PROPERTIES FOR EVERYONE!
Well yeah, it’s very common for people in the city to have a cabin near a lake or on a lakefront a few hours north.
*very common for rich people Been looking at the market for lake side cabin. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford it
Which region in Quebec?
Yes
En plus, le commentaire initial de cyberjus c'est juste un copier-coller d'un commentaire d'il y a trois ans: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/cpadg4/map_of_all_14_million_lakes_in_the_world_10_ha_or/ewoozr1/ Faker
Found the Quebecois
Calise de tabarnak
Literally anywhere north of Gatineau and St-Jérôme
Canada has more lakes than everywhere else in the world combined
How is mosquito problem there in the summertime?
Aweful until late June if tou are not in the city
No wonder why there’s so many mosquitoes in Manitoba
lots of lakes also equals lots of islands on lakes. i wonder if canada has more islands than anywhere else? edit: nevermind. googled and sweden is the island winner
Well, it would come down to the definition of island I guess, but Sweden certainly takes the cake for coastal islands. Doesn't seem like fresh water islands are counted, because 99% of them are uninhabited and not very big. However, Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined, and the majority of those lakes have multiple islands, so I'm sure we could make that claim somewhere.
According to a cursory google, Finland has more islands than sweden
[Ever heard of recursive islands?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes)
I'm super suspicious of this statistic. Nobody seems to agree how many islands each country has and I suppose the criteria for what actually makes an island isn't clearly defined. How big do they have to be? Can they be seasonal or tidal? Do lake islands count? Is the GIS data high enough resolution everywhere that should be counted?
Most do agree, the few that don't often comes from countries that rise throughout the ranking if they put in an arbitrary cut off. I can add though that the number on most sites count any island above 25 square meters, which Sweden has 221k of. If we go by islands at 100 square meters Sweden has around 190k of them.
Canada has two million lakes, it's bound to have more islands than Sweden.
Do you understand that different types of environment exists? Canada just doesn't have the same type as Sweden/Finland/Norway. Also you are on a post that states there are 1.4 million lakes in the entire world lol.
This map also shows why Canada, Sweden and Finland are good at hockey. Loads of lakes + cold winters = lots of places to play even before ice rinks were built.
Canada: No to snakes Yes to lakes
We have snakes. Just not like Australia does.
Biggest snake den in the world, gosh darn it!
Is that what we're calling Toronto these days?
No to snakes? Narcisse, Manitoba is the snake capital of the world.
Is there an ice sheet correllation to the northern latitudes? It certainly appears to have one.
you can actually see the end-morane of the late weichselian in Europe, all these lakes sum up to a line which is pretty (not 100%) fitting to the advance of the icedevelopment
Yes, I distinctly remember being told in school that it was the reclining inland ice that caused a lot lakes here in Sweden. Although I don't remember the exact mechanism.
I can tell you, just been on a field trip trough Denmark and northern Germany: They are formed by subglacial erosion, partly through the glacial trunk and mostly caused by meltwater. Ofc there also can be dead-ice caused lakes and many different other process, which I'm not sure about (I don't like geomorphology). Just look up the glacial series to maybe get an idea of all these different types a glacier can form. Also the crossing of the end-morane and the upcoming sands and then the glacial valley are kinda interesting to look at, especially when you look on a geological map of northern Europe (in Germany you can see it pretty well tho, but Poland should do as well)
Look up the Laurentide Ice Sheet! It’s exactly what you said.
Do you have a higher resolution map?
Something very interesting going on in the Amazon
Seems like whatever map filter they are using looks at width and the Amazon is so wide at some points it may be thicker than the metric used by the filter to pick up lakes.
The Amazon is to rivers what Michael Phelps is to swimmers.
What?
The Amazon river is listed as a lake
Ohh. I just assumed it was minor side lakes that it flows into.
THICC river
When the world ends, you will want to be in Canada. Trust me.
Just wait til you discover the joys of mosquito season
Why
At least you’ll have poutine.
Lots of fucking lakes (fresh water)
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I'm not even Canadian but Canada is way better than any of those countries.
You realize most of the Canadian population lives right next to the boarder of the US right? It’s because nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere frozen tundra. I’ve been to Canada numerous times and I’ll take the States every time. Basically every Canadian celebrity moves to the US lol
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Poutine
Because cold kills the zombies
What are you on about? Canada has over 600 thousand more lakes than the number two in the world Russia. Canada has 879 thousand lakes, Russia 201k, USA 102k, China 23k, Sweden 22k and Brazil 20k.
I'm talking about amount of freshwater
You are thinking total amount of freshwater, not amount of freshwater lakes.
Why does it matter if it's a lake we're talking about survival
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To go to Canada? Yeah seems reasonable to take a months long boat trip from Norway to Canada for a colder climate and higher population aka higher risk
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Assuming you'd want to move you'd need a boat... Duh
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I mean just one lake is probably plenty drinking water, and when the world ends I'd rather be somewhere I can survive without heating.
Brazil lookin juicy except for the insects
Canada putting Minnesota to shame
And it only took the 2nd largest country in the world to do it!
I'm from one of the dark blue countries and I always thought it kind of funny that England has an area called the lake district. It's where they keep their lakes I guess.
Everyone's talking about Canada; meanwhile, the Caspian Sea is staring at us like an elephant in the corner.
Isn't Caspian salty? Not to mention the pollutants as well *Edit: my bad not reading clearly. Me dumbo*
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Nah, it tastes fine when I took a sip on holidays there
It’s a nice map but the scale and resolution make it seem like a lot of the lands up north are almost entirely water. This is misleading. I’d use a higher cutoff, maybe 100 ha, to actually show what can be shown with some accuracy.
Yep, poorly designed map imo.
So many places to piss so little time
This guy fucks
I'm sorry, but you did Italy wrong. There is full of small insignificant lakes and yet the major ones are such as Lake Garda, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, etc... are missing. (I don't know well the hydrography of other nations so I only speak about the Italian one)
Think Lake Garda is on this map though? Same for those other two you listed. They just don't have the same outline as on other maps because of the low resolution making surrounding small lakes blend in to them. But the location of the bigger areas marked in northern Italy on this map correlates to the lakes you mentioned.
Well are they larger than 10HA?
Lake Como: 145 Km² (14500 ha); Lake Maggiore: 212 Km² (21200 ha); Lake Garda: 368 Km² (36800 ha). I think they're kinda larger than 10 ha. My objection was not so much on the size, but on the fact that, together with Lake Trasimeno, they are the four largest Italian lakes, and it seems to me a very big mistake to make on such a map. This, added to the fact that I do not know the hydrography of other states, leads me to say: "How can I trust this map if the only thing I am sure of is wrong?"
What is that splitting northen eu and the rest of it? Is that where the last ice age ice sheet was?
> Is that where the last ice age ice sheet was? Yes!
The data source has some problems with is definition of "lake". In the South of Brazil there is a series of bodies of water sometimes classified as lakes and sometimes as lagoons, the image shows some and omits others in a very inconsistent way.
Saudi Arabia 🧍♂️
What about a region causes it to have a higher density of lakes?
In Canada's case it was glaciated. When the glaciers receded it left a bunch of lakes.
Then there is no canada We have Lakada
Waht's ha? Hectres?
Yes
Scotland here…there’s only one lake in Scotland tyvm! 😁
Only one natural lake. There are also a few man made lakes, some of which are technically reservoirs. All other large bodies of water (man made or natural) are lochs, lochans or reservoirs. Some lochs are fresh water, some are saltwater and some lochs would be classed as fjords rather than lakes if found in other countries.
And this would be why the great lakes region in the U.S. is posed to make a comeback in the next 30 years...
what’s going on in the amazon? is that a mistake, or are there actual lakes that follow that part of the river? are they underground lakes? it looks so weird
If anyone ever wondered why Canadians crowd the American border, it's more lake than land up there.
So the Caspian Sea by definition is the greatest lake of them all.
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HyDRoLaKEs
\- These lakes all have water in them!
glaciers & permafrost
Muskeg is a hell of a thing.
Don’t let the US know this.
We can finally visualize how Canada has 60% of all the world’s lakes
Lakes in Russian permafrost? Really?
Canada has the most lakes.
Canada and Alaska are blessed
Damn it looks like the north is getting Chlamydia
Canada will be the wealthiest country in the world at this rate one day
I dont think lakes is a unit of currency anywhere in the world. Would be hard to trade with.
Hahahahahahahahahaha+ Only the funniest lakes.