Lake Ichkeul
Lake Ichkeul is a lake in northern Tunisia, located 20 kilometres to Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. The lake and wetlands of Ichkeul National Park are an important stopping-over point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each year.- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia
- Also known as: “Al-Aszkal”, “Garaet Achkel”, “Garaet Ichkeul”, “Ichkeul lake”, “Ichkeul nationalpark”, “Ičkeul”, “Jezioro Al-Aszkal”, “Jezioro Aszkal”, “Jezioro Ichkeul”, “Lac de l’Ichkeul”, “Lac de l’Ishkoel”, “Lake Ishkel”, “Nacionalni park Ichkeul”, “Nacionalni park Iškel”, “Park Narodowy Al-Aszkal”, “Park Narodowy Aszkal”, “Park Narodowy Ichkeul”, “Qar‘at al Ashkal”, “იშკელის ტბა”, “الحديقة الوطنية باشكل”, “بحيرة اشكل”, “دریاچهٔ اشکل”, “محمية اشكل”, “محميه إشكل”, and “イシュケル国立公園”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ichkeul National Park and Geological Museum.
Lake Ichkeul
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
37.16362° or 37° 9′ 49″ north
Longitude
9.67471° or 9° 40′ 29″ east
Elevation
-6 metres (-20 feet)
Open location code
8F9F5M7F+CV
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Lake Ichkeul” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة إشكل”
- Arabic: “بحيرة اشكل”
- Basque: “Ichkeul aintzira”
- Bulgarian: “Ишкил”
- Burmese: “အစ်ရှ်ကူးကန်”
- Catalan: “Llac d’Ichkeul”
- Catalan: “Parc Nacional d’Ichkeul”
- Cebuano: “Garaet el Ichkeul”
- Chinese: “伊其克乌尔湖”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Ičkeul”
- Czech: “Ichkeul”
- Danish: “Ichkeul”
- Dutch: “Ichkeul”
- Finnish: “Ichkeulin kansallispuisto”
- French: “lac Ichkeul”
- French: “Lac Ichkeul”
- Galician: “Lago de Ichkeul”
- Georgian: “იშქელის ტბა”
- German: “Ichkeul”
- German: “Ischkul-See”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Ισκέλ”
- Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי אישקל”
- Hindi: “इशकुल झील”
- Hungarian: “Iskul Nemzeti Park”
- Indonesian: “Danau Ichkeul”
- Italian: “Lago Ichkeul”
- Japanese: “イシュケル湖”
- Lithuanian: “Ičkeulis”
- Macedonian: “Ишкел”
- Maithili: “इचेकुल राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
- Malayalam: “ഇഷ്കൂൾ തടാകം”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta‘ Ichkeul”
- Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali ta’ Ichkeul”
- Nepali: “इचेकुल राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ichkeul nasjonalpark”
- Persian: “دریاچه اشکل”
- Polish: “Aszkal”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Ichkeul”
- Russian: “Гараэт-эль-Ишкёль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ichkeul”
- Slovenian: “Narodni park Ichkeul”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional del Ichkeul”
- Swedish: “Ichkeul”
- Turkish: “Ichkeul Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ішкель”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк Ішкель”
- Venetian: “lago Ichkeul”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Douar Hassine Ben Haj Salah and Henchir ech Chaouïa.
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