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== Locations == ===Africa=== * [[Lake Victoria]], [[Uganda]] * [[Lake Kyoga]], [[Uganda]] * [[Lake Malawi]], Africa<ref>{{cite journal |last=Oliver |first=Michael K. |url=https://www.academia.edu/2998745 |title=Floating islands: a means of fish dispersal in Lake Malawi, Africa |journal=Copeia |year=1982 |volume=1982 |issue=4 |pages=748–754 |access-date=2013-04-05|doi=10.2307/1444082 |jstor=1444082 }}</ref> * [[Lake Upemba]], Democratic Republic of the Congo * [[Lake Chad]], Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon * [[Hartbeespoort Dam]], North West, South Africa ===Asia=== [[File:Yüzen adalar.jpg|thumb|[[Floating islands (Bingöl)]] in Turkey]] * [[Loktak Lake]] in [[Manipur]] state, India * [[Prashar Lake]] at [[Mandi, Himachal Pradesh|Mandi]] in [[Himachal Pradesh]] state, India * [[Chamli gul]], Takab, Iran * [[Maldives Floating City]], Maldives * [[Inle Lake]], Myanmar * [[Çat Lake]], Çelikhan, [[Adıyaman]], Turkey * [[Aksakal Lake]], Solhan, [[Bingöl]], Turkey ===Australia=== * [[Lagoon of Islands]], Tasmania, Australia<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apstas.com/Lagoon_of_Islands.html |first=Keith |last=Corbett |title=Lagoon of Islands |work=The Unique Flora of Tasmania |publisher=Hobart District Group of The Australian Plants Society – Tasmania Inc. |access-date=2013-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064919/http://www.apstas.com/Lagoon_of_Islands.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> === Europe === * [[Danube Delta]], Romania * [[Lake Visitor]], Montenegro * [[Marais Audomarois]], France * [[Lago di Posta Fibreno]], Italy * [[Vlasina Lake]], Serbia * [[Semeteš Lake]], Serbia * Lake Kraljevac ,Serbia * [[Sommen]], Sweden * Das schwimmende Land, [[Waakhausen]], Germany * Schwimmendes Moor, [[Jade, Germany]] * [[Waterland]], The Netherlands * [[Lochan Saorach]], Scotland * [[Swiebodzinka]], Poland{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} ===North America=== ====United States==== ''Listed alphabetically by state'' * [https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=59_44_24_N_154_14_53.3_W Unnamed Lake], [[Alaska]] * Bolton Lakes, [[Bolton, Connecticut]] and [[Vernon, Connecticut]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bolton (Connecticut) Historical Society|url=http://www.boltoncthistory.org/rovingislands.html|access-date=2020-11-23|website=www.boltoncthistory.org|date=8 June 2004 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Belluck|first=Pam|title=And Sometimes, the Island Is Marooned on You |date=6 November 2005|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/us/and-sometimes-the-island-is-marooned-on-you.html|access-date=2020-11-23|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * [[Lake Yarbo]], [[Winter Garden, Florida]] * [[Lake Buckeye]], [[Winter Haven, Florida]] * [[Lake Idyl]], Winter Haven, Florida * Yoshi Island [[Lake Mary Jane, Florida|Lake Mary Jane]], [[Orlando, Florida]] * [[Umbagog Lake]], New Hampshire and Maine * Mill Pond, [[Alton, New Hampshire]] * Island Pond, [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] * Cranberry Island, [[Buckeye Lake, Ohio]] * Lake Sadawga, [[Whitingham, Vermont]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express-all-afloat/142102409/ |title=All Afloat |newspaper=[[Evening Express (Portland, Maine)|Evening Express]] |location=[[Portland, Maine]] |page=1 |date=June 17, 1969 |accessdate=February 25, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> * [[Kettle Moraine]], Wisconsin<ref name=":0" /> * Prairie Lake, [[Barron County, Wisconsin]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Keen |first=Kevin |url=http://www.wqow.com/story/15222430/floating-island-on-the-verge-of-break-its-tethers |title=UPDATE: Floating island on the verge of breaking its tethers |work=WQOW TV |date=2011-07-30 |access-date=2011-08-09 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233548/http://www.wqow.com/story/15222430/floating-island-on-the-verge-of-break-its-tethers |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Duwamish River]], [[Seattle, Washington]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://livingshorelines.be.uw.edu/project-background/floating-wetlands-project/ | title=Duwamish Floating Wetlands – Living Shorelines }}</ref> * [[Shilshole Marina]], [[Seattle, Washington]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://greenfutures.be.uw.edu/2022/01/19/marine-floating-wetland/ | title=Marine Floating Wetlands | date=19 January 2022 }}</ref> ====Elsewhere==== * [[El Zacaton]], [[Tamaulipas]], [[Mexico]] * [[Lake Ontario]], [[Ontario]], Canada and [[New York (state)|New York]], United States<ref name=":0" /> ===South America=== * [[Lake Titicaca]], Bolivia and Peru * [[El Ojo]], [[Argentina]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.infobae.com/tendencias/2016/09/05/el-ojo-la-isla-circular-que-se-mueve-sola-en-el-delta-del-parana/|title=El Ojo: la isla circular que se mueve sola en el Delta del Paraná|work=Infobae|access-date=2017-07-23|language=es}}</ref>
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