Lake Thun Thunersee
View with Thun from the Niederhorn
Location	Canton of Berne
Coordinates	46°41′N 7°43′ECoordinates: 46°41′N 7°43′E
Lake type	oligotrophic - mesotrophic
Primary sources	Aar
Primary outflows	Aar
Catchment area	2,500 km²
Basin countries	Switzerland
Max length	17.5 km
Max width	3.5 km
Surface area	48.3 km²
Average depth	136 m
Max depth	217 m
Water volume	6.5 km³
Residence time (of lake water)	684 days
Surface elevation	558 m
Settlements	Thun, Spiez

Lake Thun (German: Thunersee) is a lake just north of the Alps, in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. It took its name from the city of Thun is on its north shore. Image File history File links Thunersee. ... Location within Switzerland Thun (French Thoune) is a town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 41,540 inhabitants (2003). ... View of Thun and Lake Thun from the Niederhorn The Niederhorn (elevation 1950 metres) is a peak in the Swiss Alps in the Bernese Oberland near Beatenberg. ... The Swiss Canton of Berne is bilingual (German: Kanton  ; French Canton de Berne) and has a population of about 947,000. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... Oligotrophic refers to any environment that offers little to sustain life. ... Mesotrophic is a term applied to clear water lakes and ponds with beds of submerged aquatic plants and medium levels of nutrients. ... Look up Aar, AAR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Aar, AAR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 km² (1,000 hectares) and 100 km² (10,000 hectares). ... To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists volumes between 1 and 10 cubic kilometres ( to cubic metres). ... A measure based on the volume of water in a lake and the mean rate of outflow. ... Location within Switzerland Thun (French Thoune) is a town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 41,540 inhabitants (2003). ... Spiez is a small town with approx. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... View of Thun and Lake Thun from the Niederhorn The Bernese Oberland (Bernese highlands) is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the South of the canton: The area around Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and the valleys of the Bernese Alps (thus, the inhabitable parts from... Location within Switzerland Thun (French Thoune) is a town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 41,540 inhabitants (2003). ...

Lake Thun's approximately 2,500 km² large catchment area frequently causes local flooding after heavy rainfalls. This occurs because the river Aar (German: Aare), which drains Lake Thun, has only limited capacity to handle the excess runoff. To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Look up Aar, AAR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Run-off or runoff may refer to one of the following. ...

The lake is fed by water from Lake Brienz to the south east, which lies 6 metres higher than Lake Thun and various streams in the Oberland, including the Kander. Lake Thun was created after the last ice age and was originally part of Lake Brienz. The historic combined lake is called Wendelsee by geologists and historians. Lake Brienz as seen from the mountains above it Lake Brienz (German: Brienzersee) is a lake in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. ... Kander is the name of two European rivers: Kander (Switzerland) Kander (Germany) Kander may also refer to the American Composer John Kander Category: ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ...

Fishing is important enough to keep a handful professional fishers employed. In 2001 the total catch was 53,000 kg. Since 1835 passenger ships have operated on the lake. There are ten passenger ships in total, operated by the local railway company BLS Lötschbergbahn. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... BLS Re4 class loco 485 006 at Mannheim, July 2004 The Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon (BLS) railway, known since the merger of the old BLS with the Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn (BN), the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS) and the Simmentalbahn (SEZ) in 1997 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, is...

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Lake Thun

• Lake Thun Tourism Portal
• Hochwasserschutz Thunersee (German) - water regulation scheme at Thun
• Hydrological data for Lake Thun at Spiez - historic and current data: waterlevels