Drūkšiai
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Drūkšiai (), also called Drysviaty or Drysvyaty, or Drisvyaty (, ; ) is the largest of the Braslau lakes located partly in the northeastern part of Lithuania and partly in the Vitebsk Voblast, in Belarus. The lake water was used to cool the reactors of Lithuania's now decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Drūkšiai
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- Drūkšiai001.JPG
- Body of water.caption
- Lake Drūkšiai in Lithuania, at Tilžė village
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- Prorva
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- Lithuania, Belarus
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- Lithuania#Belarus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Zarasai District Municipality
- Area
- 44.79
- Elevation
- 141.6
- Image
- Drūkšiai001.JPG
- Length
- 13
- Perimeter
- 60.3
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- residence time of water
- 3
- watershed area
- 613
- Commons category
- Drūkšiai Lake
- vertical depth
- 33.3
- volume as quantity
- 0.37
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
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Drūkšiai (), also called Drysviaty or Drysvyaty, or Drisvyaty (, ; ) is the largest of the Braslau lakes located partly in the northeastern part of Lithuania and partly in the Vitebsk Voblast, in Belarus. The lake water was used to cool the reactors of Lithuania's now decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
The greatest depth of the lake is 33.3 m, and the average depth is 7.6 m. The basin of the lake was formed during the movement of the glaciers by two perpendicular channels, which expanded north to south and west to east. The maximum depth of the first channel is 29 m, and of the second is 33.3 m. The greatest depths are located near the middle of the lake. The shallowest part is on the south ridge of the lake, its depth is approximately between 3 and 7 meters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Drūkšiai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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