Lake Itasca
Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake, approximately 4.7 square kilometres in area. It is located in Itasca State Park, in south-eastern Clearwater County, in the Headwaters area of north-central Minnesota, and is notable for being the headwater of the Mississippi River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Clearwater County, northern Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “Doe Lake”, “Itasca”, “Itasca Lake”, “Lac La Biche”, and “Omushkos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lyendecker Lake.
Lyendecker Lake
Lyendecker Lake is a lake in Clearwater County, Minnesota, in the United States. Lyendecker Lake was named for a travel companion of Jacob V. Brower. Lyendecker Lake is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lake Itasca.Lake Itasca
- Categories: glacial lake and body of water
- Location: Clearwater, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Itasca” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة إتاسكا، كليرواتر”
- Armenian: “Այթասքա լիճ”
- Armenian: “Այտասկա”
- Azerbaijani: “İtaska gölü”
- Balinese: “Danu Itasca”
- Belarusian: “Айтаска”
- Bulgarian: “Айтаска”
- Catalan: “Itasca”
- Catalan: “Llac Itasca”
- Cebuano: “Lake Itasca”
- Chinese: “伊塔斯加湖”
- Chinese: “艾塔斯卡湖”
- Croatian: “Itasca”
- Danish: “Lake Itasca”
- Dutch: “Itascameer”
- Dutch: “Lake Itasca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة ايتاسكا”
- Esperanto: “Itasca”
- Finnish: “Itascajärvi”
- French: “Itasca”
- French: “lac Itasca”
- French: “Lac Itasca”
- Galician: “lago Itasca”
- German: “Itascasee”
- German: “Lake Itasca”
- Hebrew: “אגם איטסקה”
- Indonesian: “Danau Itasca”
- Irish: “Loch Itasca”
- Italian: “lago Itasca”
- Italian: “Lago Itasca”
- Japanese: “イタスカ湖”
- Kabyle: “Agelmim n Itasca”
- Korean: “아이태스카호”
- Kurdish: “gola Itasca”
- Lithuanian: “Aitaskos ežeras”
- Malay: “Tasik Itasca”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Itasca-sjøen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Itasca”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Itasca-sjøen”
- Norwegian: “Itasca-sjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه آیتاسکا”
- Persian: “دریاچه ایتاسکا”
- Polish: “Jezioro Itasca”
- Portuguese: “Lago Itasca”
- Romanian: “Lacul Itasca”
- Romanian: “Lake Itasca”
- Russian: “Айтаска”
- Serbian: “Итаска”
- Slovenian: “jezero Itasca”
- Slovenian: “Lake Itasca”
- Spanish: “Itasca”
- Spanish: “lago Itasca”
- Spanish: “Lago Itasca”
- Swedish: “Itascasjön”
- Vietnamese: “hồ Itasca”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Itasca”
- Welsh: “Llyn Itasca”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Itasca”. Photo: Tastocke, CC BY-SA 3.0.