Flathead Lake
Flathead Lake is a large natural lake in northwest Montana, United States. The lake is a remnant of the ancient, massive glacial dammed lake, Lake Missoula, of the era of the last interglacial.
- Type: Lake
- Description: large natural lake in Lake and Flathead counties in Montana, United States
- Also known as: “Flathead gölü”, “Pend D’Oreille Lake”, “Selish Lake”, and “平頭湖”
Flathead Lake
- Categories: moraine-dammed lake and body of water
- Location: Lake, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.88687° or 47° 53′ 13″ north
Longitude
-114.1316° or 114° 7′ 54″ west
Elevation
2,897 feet (883 metres)
Open location code
85V7VVP9+P9
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Flathead Lake” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Возера Флатхед”
- Belarusian: “Флатхед”
- Catalan: “Flathead Lake”
- Chinese: “弗拉特黑德湖”
- Dutch: “Flathead Lake”
- Esperanto: “Ebensupra Lago”
- French: “lac Flathead”
- French: “Lac Flathead”
- German: “Flathead Lake”
- Hebrew: “אגם פלאטהד”
- Indonesian: “Danau Flathead”
- Italian: “lago Flathead”
- Italian: “Lago Flathead”
- Japanese: “フラットヘッド湖”
- Korean: “플랫헤드 호”
- Korean: “플랫헤드호”
- Lithuanian: “Flathedo ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Флотхед”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flathead Lake”
- Polish: “Flathead Lake”
- Russian: “Флатхед”
- Serbian: “Флатхед”
- Slovenian: “Flathead Lake”
- Spanish: “Lago Flathead”
- Swedish: “Flathead Lake”
- Turkish: “Flathead Gölü”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Flathead”
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