Hokkaido Lakes Catalog

Kushiro NemuroDammed lake

Lake Penketo

Kushiro City ・ ペンケトー

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1977Lake Penketo in 1977Aerial photo taken by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, shown with the film edge and instruments intact.

Aerial photo of Lake Penketo (Kushiro City, Hokkaido) taken in 1977
Taken October 13, 1977. Source: aerial photo by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (1977), resized.GSI Maps and Aerial Photo Service

About Lake Penketo

A dammed lake northeast of Lake Akan in Kushiro City, near Lake Panketo. Its transparency of 11.3 m in the 1991 survey made it one of 13 lakes in Japan clearer than 10 m. It is an unmodified lake, with white-spotted char, rainbow trout and Japanese dace recorded.

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report (1993), Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report: Data Appendix (1993) (sources in Japanese)

Lake data

Surface elevation
520 m
Transparency
11.3 m#5 in Hokkaidoas of the 1991 survey
Origin
Dammed lake
Lake type
Oligotrophic
Freezing
Freezes in winter
Unmodified lake
Yes (shore entirely natural)
Natural park
Akan-Mashu National Park
Lake number
0470number in the national lake survey

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, 4th National Survey on the Natural Environment: Lake Survey Report (1993). Area and depth use newer figures from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan where available. Origin, lake type, transparency, freezing and unmodified status are as of the 1991 survey.

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