Key facts
- Location
- Masurian Lake District
- Type
- Glacial lake
- Primary outflows
- Angrapa
- Basin countries
- Poland
- Surface area
- 104 km (40 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 44 m (144 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 116 metres (381 ft)
- Islands
- 33 (7 in Mamry proper)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mamry (German: Mauersee, Lithuanian: Mauras) is a lake in the Masurian Lake District of Poland's Warmia-Mazury Province. It is the second largest lake in Poland, with an area of 104 square kilometres (40 sq mi). The lake's maximum depth is 44 metres (144 ft) with an average depth of 11 metres (36 ft).
It comprises six connected lakes: Mamry, Kirsajty, Kisajno, Dargin, Święcajty and Dobskie. Mamry features 33 islands, totaling 213 hectares (530 acres), some of which are ornithological reserves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Mamry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.