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Bitter Lake is a small lake in northwest Seattle, Washington, USA.
The lake covers 19 acres (77,000 m²), with a mean depth of 16 feet (5 m) and a maximum depth of 31 feet (9 m). Until 1913, a sawmill was located at its southwest corner. Tannic acid from logs dumped into the lake gave its water a bitter taste and the lake itself a name. The Duwamish called the lake "Blackcaps on the Sides" ( Lushootseed: cHálqWadee), denoting the blackcap ( Rubus leucodermis) plants that grew along the shores.
It is a glacial lake, its basin having been dug 15,000 years ago by the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which also created Lake Washington, Union, Green and Haller Lakes.
The Seattle-to- Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906, and the Bitter Lake neighborhood was annexed by Seattle in 1954.
The lake is situated between Greenwood Avenue North to the west, Linden Avenue North to the east, North 137th Street to the north, and North 130th Street to the south. Bitter Lake drains through a piped outlet at its southeast end that eventually flows into Lake Union.
Bitter Lake may refer to:
Bitter Lake is a lake in the Trent River and Lake Ontario drainage basins located in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada, about northwest of the community of Haliburton.
The lake is long and wide and lies at an elevation of . There are no significant inflows. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek that flows through Tedious Lake to the Redstone River, a tributary of the Gull River.
Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians have manufactured a simplified story about militant Islam into a "good" vs. "evil" argument, informed by and a reaction to Western society's increasing chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand.
Bitter Lake is a lake in South Dakota, in the United States.
Bitter Lake contains bitter tasting lake water, hence the name.
Usage examples of "bitter lake".
He ate supper, sang songs, chatted about the earthquake and what hed seen on the journey to and from the Bitter Lake.
He ate supper, sang songs, chatted about the earthquake and what he'd seen on the journey to and from the Bitter Lake.
The Akaka and their friends, they're up around Old Woman Mountain, and the Bitter Lake, and west around Black Mountain and Willow Springs.
Naja looked westwards, across the wide sand desert towards the city of Ismailiya at the head of the Great Bitter Lake, and to the borders of his homeland.
It was mid-morning and the heat haze was rising like fog, shrouding the Bitter Lake and the straight dark line of the Canal, which is the best landmark a low-flying pilot could wish for.
The army gathered itself and moved on, traveling swiftly toward the bitter lake.
He got out his pencils and a new cahier, sharpened five pencils and began to write the story of his father and the raid in the year of the Maji-Maji rebellion that had started with the trek across the bitter lake.
It drank acidly of the bitter lake then, with thirst satisfied, it turned and seemed to sense my presence, for the wrinkled snout rose and pointed toward me, sniffing audibly.
From the wilderness of Shur to the great bitter lake there was blood by day and fire by night.
Nor would he and Martin have been able to take a camel over to the shores of the Little Bitter Lake, where in the last rays of light they saw the pied kingfisher and the houbara bustard.
The wealth which Cortes wept over, and his Spaniards sinned and died for, is for ever hidden yonder by the shores of the bitter lake whose waters gave up to you that ancient horror, the veritable and sleepless god of Sacrifice, of whom I would not rob you--and, for my part, I do not regret the loss.