Annecy Lacus

Annecy Lacus is one of a number of hydrocarbon lakes found on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Annecy Lacus
Feature typeLacus
Coordinates76.8°N 128.9°W / 76.8; -128.9 (Annecy Lacus)
Diameter20 km [note 1]
EponymLake Annecy

The lake is 35.6 km in diameter, making its size comparable Lake Geneva, in between Switzerland and France on Earth.

Akmena Lacus's name derives from Lake Annecy, located in Haute-Savoie, France.

Notes

  1. The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

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