Largest lakes & reservoirs in Antrim Region, Northern Ireland by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 2 articles we have published for Antrim Region, Northern Ireland lakes.
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Below are lakes within United Kingdom > Northern Ireland Region, United Kingdom > Antrim Region, Northern Ireland > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Antrim Region, Northern Ireland, only the 2 Antrim Region, Northern Ireland lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name | Water vol. in ac-ft | Lake description |
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Lough Neagh (Antrim Region, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Region, United Kingdom, United Kingdom) |
2,860,196 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Neagh, The Lough) Nestled in the heart of Northern Ireland, Lough (Lake) Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. Covering over 96,800 acres with beau … |