Ełk Lake ( pl, Jezioro Ełckie, german: Lycker See; lt, Luko ežeras) is a fresh water lake in the
Masurian Lake District
The Masurian Lake District or Masurian Lakeland ( pl, Pojezierze Mazurskie; german: Masurische Seenplatte) is a lake district in northeastern Poland within the geographical region of Masuria, in the past inhabited by Masurians who spoke the Masu ...
of
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 populou ...
's
Warmia-Mazury Province adjacent to the town of
Ełk
Ełk (; former pl, Łek; german: Lyck; Old Prussian: ''Luks''; lt, Lukas), also spelled Elk in English, is a small city in northeastern Poland with 61,677 inhabitants as of December 2021. It was assigned to Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in 1999, ...
.
The lake that was created by glacial action during the
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was finally confirmed in ...
ice age and has a surface area is 3.82 square kilometres. Its average depth is 15m with 58.2m as a maximum. It is divided into two distinct parts, the northern ("small") and southern ("large"), by a narrows spanned by a bridge. Primarily fed by the
Ełk River from the south west the lake discharges into
Lake Sunowo at the north-west, and
Lake Szarek at the south west.
Gallery
File:PL Ełk promenada1.jpg, Promenade
File:PL Ełk panorama.jpg, Panorama of the bridge on the lake
File:Elk 04.jpg, View of the lake and the city from the west
File:Poland Elk View.jpg, View the east bank
File:Lyck.JPG, Lake circa 1900
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Lakes of Poland
Lakes of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship