Island Lake

The numbers

• 1,130km²Area, measured436 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,040km²Area, publishedWikidata · 8.4% below our measure, flagged
• 59.4mGreatest depthaverage about 19.3 m
• 21.8km³VolumeWikidata
• 225mAbove sea levelSurface, Wikidata

The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.

What the numbers say about Island Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 336× the size of Island Lake; Island Lake ranks 85th.
• Island Lake sits between Lake Toba (1,140 km²) and Red Lake (1,120 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Island Lake would be larger than 35 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 178th by area, between the Comoros (1,670 km²) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
• It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Island Lake is 40% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 59 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 19 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 22 km³. Poured over São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²), that water would stand 21 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 225 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 54°N is drawn about 2.9× too large in area, so Island Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Island Lake stretches about 35 km north to south and 64 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,130 km² is 8.4% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,040 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.

About the same size as

On the shore

• Canada

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Island Lake. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Names

• Island Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Islandalso calledsource: Natural Earth