Wielki Staw Polski (
Polish
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: ''Wielki Staw Polski'';
Slovakian: ''Veľký stav'';
German
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: ''Großer Polnischer See'';
Hungarian: ''Nagy-tó'') - is a
tarn located in the
High Tatras, at an elevation of 1,665
metres above sea level in the Valley of the Five Polish Lakes (''Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich''), by the slope of the Miedziane. The lake is the second-largest lake by area () in the
Tatra Mountains after the
Morskie Oko (). The lake is located in the
Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of
3,404,863 (2019).
It was created on 1 ...
; in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
.
Wielki Staw Polski is the deepest and longest (998 metres) lake in the
Tatra Mountains, and the third-deepest lake in Poland (the deepest lake is
Hańcza
Hańcza ( lt, Ančia) is a lake in Suwałki Region, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland. It is 311.4 ha large, 4.5 km long and 1.2 km wide. It is the deepest lake in Poland with maximum depth of 108.5 m. The Czarna Hańcza river flows throug ...
. The lake's volume is around 13 million m³ of water, and it is the largest lake by volume in the
Tatra Mountains (its volume makes up one third of all lakes in the
Tatra Mountains lakes). The highest temperature of the lake's water was .
See also
*
Siklawa Falls
References
Lakes of Poland
Lakes of Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lakes of the High Tatras
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