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by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince. Retrieved 1 Nov 2013. (german: Schweriner See) is a

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

, northern

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It was named after the city

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the capital and second-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg, after Rostock. It ...

, on its southwestern shore. The smaller town Bad Kleinen is on the north shore of the lake. Its surface is approximately , and its maximum depth is . The natural outflow of the lake is the (channelized) river

Stör The Stör () is a river in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Stör rises east of Neumünster, and flows west through Neumünster, Kellinghusen, and Itzehoe. The Stör joins the Elbe near Glücks ...

, a tributary of the

Elde The Elde () is a river in northern Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a few km in Brandenburg), a right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Elde originates near Altenhof, south of Malchow. It first flows southeast towards the south ...

, and part of the

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Re ...

watershed. The Wallensteingraben, a 16th-century canal, connects the lake with the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and ...

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

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and its lakes, most dominantly the ''Lake Schwerin'' with its inner and outer lake area File:Germany schwerin aerial view ArM.jpg , Aerial view of Schwerin on the lakes File:Schwerin Castle Aerial View Island Luftbild Schweriner Schloss Insel See.jpg ,

Schwerin Castle Schwerin Castle (also known as ''Schwerin Palace'', german: Schweriner Schloss, ), is a schloss located in the city of Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany. It is situated on an island in the city's main lake, Lake Sch ...

on its own island in the Lake Schwerin File:Landtagsprojekt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2013 by-RaBoe-249.jpg , Yachting Club at Lake Schwerin File:Schwerin Weisse Flotte Marstall 2009-10-20 016.jpg , White Fleet, cruiseships at the city's lakeshore File:Schwerin Zippendorf Strand 2012-07-02 031.JPG , Beach in Zippendorf, a district of Schwerin File:Morning View (6105598606).jpg , The ''Beutel'' are of Lake Schwerin File:Schwerin Schweriner See Beutel Marstallhalbinsel Sonnenaufgang (3094335309).jpg , Sunrise at the Marstall peninsula File:Stadtansicht vom Schweriner See 31052009.jpg , Schwerin seen from the Lake File:Turm-kaninchenwerder.jpg, Observation tower on ''Kaninchenwerder'', an island of Lake Schwerin File:Sunrise - 2010-10-25 (5113181443).jpg , Sunrise at Ziegelwerder island

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Federal waterways in Germany {{Schwerin-geo-stub