Finger lake

A finger lake, also known as either a fjord lake or trough lake, is "a narrow linear body of water occupying a glacially overdeepened valley and sometimes impounded by a morainic dam."[1][2][3] Where one end of a finger lake is drowned by the sea, it becomes a fjord or sea-loch.

Examples

New Zealand

Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables

Lake Wakatipu, Otago, South Island.

United Kingdom

England

Many of the lakes of the Lake District are finger lakes.

Scotland

Loch Maree

Many lochs of Scotland are finger lakes. Some like Loch Broom and Loch Maree form fjord and finger lake systems.

Wales

Many of the Welsh llyns.

USA

Finger Lakes, New York State

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References

Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.
Whittow (1984), 193.
Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.

Literature

Hamblin, P.F. and Carmack, E.C., 1978. River‐induced currents in a Fjord Lake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 83(C2), pp.885-899.
Kotlyakov, Vladimir and Anna Komarova, Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 978-0-444-51042-6.
Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, 1984. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.

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[1] Hamblin and Carmack (1978), 885.

[2] Whittow (1984), 193.

[3] Kotlyakov and Komarova (2007), 255.