Lake Mattamuskeet

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Name: Lake Mattamuskeet
Water system: Gray Ditch
Water type: Natural lake
Progression: Gray Ditch -> Pamlico Sound -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Subtropical
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Lake Mattamuskeet is the largest natural lake in North Carolina.

It is a shallow coastal lake, averaging 2–3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) feet in depth, and stretches 18 miles (29 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide.

Lake Mattamuskeet lies on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula. Lake Mattamuskeet is the location of Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge as well as surrounding public and private lands in eastern North Carolina are a major wintering site for waterfowl including ducks like northern pintail and green-wing teal, geese like Canada geese and tundra swans.

Lake Mattamuskeet

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