Lake Sakakawea
Lake Sakakawea is a large reservoir in the north central United States, impounded in 1953 by Garrison Dam, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam located in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota.- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir on the Missouri River in North Dakota, United States
- Also known as: “Garrison Dam Lake”, “Garrison Dam Reservoir”, “Garrison Lake”, “Garrison Reservoir”, “Lake Thompson”, and “萨卡加维亚湖”
Lake Sakakawea
- Category: body of water
- Location: Dunn, North Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.77159° or 47° 46′ 18″ north
Longitude
-102.32957° or 102° 19′ 47″ west
Elevation
1,841 feet (561 metres)
Open location code
85VVQMCC+J5
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Lake Sakakawea” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “lake Sakakawea”
- Cebuano: “Lake Sakakawea”
- Chinese: “沙卡卡威亞湖”
- Dutch: “Lake Sakakawea”
- French: “lac Sakakawea”
- French: “Lac Sakakawea”
- German: “Lake Sakakawea”
- Italian: “lago Sakakawea”
- Italian: “Lago Sakakawea”
- Japanese: “サカカウェア湖”
- Lithuanian: “Sakakavijos tvenkinys”
- Macedonian: “Сакакавеја”
- Macedonian: “Сакакавија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Sakakawea”
- Norwegian: “Lake Sakakawea”
- Polish: “Sakakawea”
- Russian: “Сакакавиа”
- Serbian: “Сакакавија”
- Spanish: “Lago Sakakawea”
- Welsh: “Llyn Sakakawea”
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Places to explore: Raub and Parshall.
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