There are eleven Finger Lakes, including all the lakes on this map except Lake Ontario, Onondaga Lake, Cazenovia Lake, and Oneida Lake.
3 Comments
Tim
4/2/2014 11:47:24 am
Waneta, Lamoka and Cayuta don't count?
Reply
4/2/2014 10:37:25 pm
Good question, Tim! Though these small lakes date from the last retreat of Ice Age glaciers like the rest of the Finger Lakes, they do differ. The Finger Lakes are all dammed at their southern ends by the Valley Heads Moraine, which forces their outlet streams to flow north, eventually to Lake Ontario. Waneta, Lamoka, and Cayuta all drain south to the Susquehanna, as does Otsego Lake farther east.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorTony Ingraham, owner of Owl Gorge Productions, author of A Walk Through Watkins Glen: Water's Sculpture in Stone, and co-author of Ithaca: the City, Gorges, and Colleges. ArchivesCategories |