Mono Lake
Mono Lake is a massive lake that sits at over 6,000 feet elevation in the Eastern Sierra region of California, just east of Yosemite National Park. There are no rivers or streams to drain the lake's waters, resulting in high saline concentrations.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: endorheic lake in California
- Also known as: “Lake Mono” and “Mona Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paoha Island and Negit Island.
Paoha Island
Island
Paoha Island is a volcanic island in Mono Lake, an endorheic lake in the U.S. state of California. The island was formed by a series of eruptions in the 17th century.
Negit Island
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Negit Island is an island in Mono Lake. Negit is a volcanic cone less than 2000 years old. It can be considered to be the northernmost of the Mono Craters.
Mono Lake
- Categories: endorheic lake, monomictic lake, soda lake, and body of water
- Location: Mono County, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Mono Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mono Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة مونو”
- Basque: “Mono aintzira”
- Bulgarian: “Моно”
- Catalan: “llac Mono”
- Catalan: “Llac Mono”
- Cebuano: “Mono Lake”
- Chinese: “莫诺湖”
- Chinese: “莫諾湖”
- Chuvash: “Моно”
- Czech: “Mono Lake”
- Czech: “Mono”
- Danish: “Mono Lake”
- Dutch: “Mono Lake”
- Esperanto: “Lago Mono”
- Esperanto: “Mono Lake”
- Estonian: “Mono järv”
- Finnish: “Mono Lake”
- French: “lac Mono”
- French: “Lac Mono”
- French: “Mono Lake”
- German: “Mono Lake”
- German: “Mono-See”
- German: “Monosee”
- Hebrew: “אגם מונו”
- Hindi: “मोनो झील”
- Hungarian: “Mono-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Mono”
- Italian: “lago Mono”
- Italian: “Lago Mono”
- Italian: “Mono Lake”
- Japanese: “モノレイク”
- Japanese: “モノ湖”
- Javanese: “Danau Mono”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Mono, California”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Mono”
- Korean: “모노 레이크”
- Korean: “모노 호”
- Korean: “모노 호수”
- Korean: “모노호”
- Limburgan: “Mono Lake”
- Lithuanian: “Mono ežeras”
- Malagasy: “Farihy Mono”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monosjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monosjøen”
- Norwegian: “Monosjøen”
- Persian: “دریاچه مونو”
- Polish: “Jezioro Mono”
- Polish: “Mono Lake”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mono”
- Portuguese: “Mono Lake”
- Romanian: “Lacul Mono”
- Romanian: “Mono Lake”
- Russian: “Моно”
- Russian: “Озеро Моно”
- Serbian: “Jezero Mono”
- Serbian: “Mono jezero”
- Serbian: “Језеро Моно”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Mono”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mono”
- Slovenian: “Mono Lake”
- Spanish: “lago Mono”
- Spanish: “Lago Mono”
- Spanish: “Mono Lake”
- Swedish: “Monosjön”
- Tamil: “ஒற்றை உவரேரி”
- Turkish: “Mono Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Моно”
- Ukrainian: “Озеро Моно”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Mono”
- Yue Chinese: “莫諾湖”
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