Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain (in English; Lac Pontchartrain, IPA in French), the brackish lake located in southeastern Louisiana

Area

630 square miles

Class

lake, area of water, landscape feature, geographical area

Region

▶ Louisiana, the United States, the world, the Americas, North America,  …

North America, the G8, the Northern Hemisphere, the contiguous United States, the continental United States, the Central Standard Time region, the US dollar zone, the area using the NANP, The Confederate States of America

Location, Nearest Settlement

Louisiana

Location of

Pass Manchac Light, Battle of Lake Pontchartrain

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pontchartrain

Length

40 miles

Coordinates

▶ 30°12'21.96"N, 30°12'021.8"N, 30°12'21"N, 90°06'07.56"W, 90°06'07.68"W,  …

90°06'07"W

End of

Louisiana Highway 1077

Borders

▶ New Orleans, Louisiana; Metairie, Louisiana; Slidell, Louisiana; Kenner, Louisiana; Mandeville, Louisiana;  …

Madisonville, Louisiana

Related Websites

▶ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4223426.stm, http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0902_050902_katrina_levees.html, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001894_pf.html, http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/eng/edhd/Wcontrol/lpont.htm,  …

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-206, http://www.lpbmaritimemuseum.org, http://www.pontchartrain.net, http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=073802331, http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/Pontchartrain, http://www.saveourlake.org

Freebase ID

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Bridge

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, I-10 Twin Span Bridge, Maestri Bridge

Places

the United States

GeoNames URL

http://sws.geonames.org/4337792/

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lake_Pontchartrain

Rare Terms

▶ "the nations secondlargest saltwater lake", ""the nation's second-largest saltwater lake"", "the pontchartrain lake", "pontchartrain lake", "the pontchatrain",  …

"pontchatrain", "the lake ponchatrain", "lake ponchatrain", "the lake ponchartrain", "lake ponchartrain", "the pontchartrain", "pontchartrain"

Freebase Primary MID

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