Angle Tarn (Patterdale)

Angle Tarn is a lake in Cumbria, England, about a mile north-east of Hartsop. Located at an altitude of 479 m (1,572 ft), the lake has an area of 5.9 hectares (15 acres), measures 385 by 260 m (1,263 by 853 ft), with a maximum depth of 9 m (30 ft).[1] The lake is very distinctive in that it resembles a fish hook in shape. It contains ‘two rocky islets and a small broken peninsula’.[2]

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  1. ↑ "Angle Tarn (Patterdale)". f22.org.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Otley, Jonathan (1830). A concise description of the English lakes, and adjacent mountains: with general directions to tourists: notices of the botany, mineralogy, and geology of the district; observations on meteorology; the floating island in Derwent lake; and black-lead mine in Borrowdale. The author. p. 32. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

Coordinates: 54°31′11″N 2°54′2″W / 54.51972°N 2.90056°W / 54.51972; -2.90056


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