Nisser
Sign in to saveNisser is a lake in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in Nissedal and Kviteseid municipalities, and is Telemark's largest lake. The lake is the 10th-largest lake in the nation by area with a surface area of (when artificial lakes are excluded). The 8th largest by volume at . The 16th deepest at . Nisser has the greatest average depth of the Norwegian lakes that is not a cryptodepression. Its entire lakebasin is above sealevel. As part of the Arendal watershed, water enters this lake from the discharge from the nearby lake Vråvatn, and its outlet is the Nisserelva river which later becomes
Key facts
- Body of water.name
- Nisser
- Body of water.other_name
- Nisservatnet
- Body of water.image
- Norway Telemarksvegen.jpg
- Body of water.caption
- Along the shore of Nisser
- Body of water.pushpin_map
- Telemark#Norway
- Body of water.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Body of water.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the lake
- Body of water.location
- Nissedal Municipality,Telemark
- Body of water.type
- glacier lake
- Body of water.inflow
- Borstadåi, Frostdøl, Horgevikåi, Håtveitåi, Lindefjellåi, Nordbøåna and Roholdtåi (Straumen)
- Body of water.outflow
- Nisserelva
- Body of water.basin_countries
- Norway
- Body of water.islands
- Trontveitøya
- Body of water.reference
- NVE
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 62.984929
- Elevation
- 246.76
- Image
- Nisser.jpg
- Length
- 35
- Perimeter
- 182.5
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- Nisser
- watershed area
- 1078.23
- vertical depth
- 234
- volume as quantity
- 7185
- residence time of water
- 7.933247
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Nisser is a lake in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in Nissedal and Kviteseid municipalities, and is Telemark's largest lake. The lake is the 10th-largest lake in the nation by area with a surface area of (when artificial lakes are excluded). The 8th largest by volume at . The 16th deepest at . Nisser has the greatest average depth of the Norwegian lakes that is not a cryptodepression. Its entire lakebasin is above sealevel. As part of the Arendal watershed, water enters this lake from the discharge from the nearby lake Vråvatn, and its outlet is the Nisserelva river which later becomes part of the river Nidelva.
Fish species in the lake include the Brown trout, European whitefish, European perch, Stickleback, and Arctic char.
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2 mapped locations
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