Lake Müritz
Lake Müritz (area 115.3sq.km/44.5sq.mi) is the largest lake in the Mecklenburg lake district. The name is Slav, meaning "sea," and indeed this great sheet of water, surrounded by woodland and fields, has the aspect of a sea and can be stormy with threatening waves.
The lake has an average depth of about 6.50m/21ft, with a maximum depth of 31m/102ft.
The lake has an average depth of about 6.50m/21ft, with a maximum depth of 31m/102ft.
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It lies at an altitude of 62m/203ft above sea level, considerably higher than the second largest of the Mecklenburg lakes, the Schweriner See (37.40m/123ft). Thus, like the other "Great Lakes" drained by the river Elde to the Elbe, it is one of the Obere Seen (Upper Lakes) in the Mecklenburg lake district. It is linked by the Müritz-Havel Canal with the upper Havel and the numerous lakes in that area.
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Müritz National Park
At the north end of Lake Müritz, around Waren, are a number of smaller lakes (the Binnenmüritz, the Tiefwarensee, the Feisnecksee), separated from it by narrow strips of land. Round its northeast and east sides are other lakes (the Rederangsee, the Specker See, etc.). All of these are now included within the Müritz National Park (area 310sq.km/120sq.mi), established in 1990, notable for the large numbers of rare birds (cranes, white-tailed eagles, ospreys) which nest here.
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