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Lake Surprise is a crater lake situated within a prominent volcanic tuff cone in Victoria, Australia. It is nested securely inside the caldera of an ancient volcano located in the Budj Bim National Park, formerly known as Mount Eccles National Park. The lake was formed by a series of basaltic erupti...

Lake Pupuke is a freshwater maar lake located on Auckland's North Shore in New Zealand. It was formed by explosive phreatomagmatic eruptions approximately 140,000 years ago, leaving behind a crater with low surrounding tuff rings. As one of the region's oldest volcanic features and a rare natural la...

Meerfelder Maar is the largest crater lake in Germany's Eifel region, notable for forming 80,000 years ago and containing paleoclimatic sediment records used in Quaternary geology.

Laguna de Atexcac is a maar crater lake located in the Serdán-Oriental basin in the state of Puebla, Mexico. It was formed by a phreatomagmatic explosion during the Pleistocene epoch, resulting in a distinct volcanic crater that subsequently filled with water. The lake is hydrologically closed and c...

Schalkenmehrener Maar is a volcanic maar in the Eifel region of western Germany. It consists of two adjacent depressions: an eastern basin containing a lake and a western basin that is largely dry, giving the formation its distinctive paired structure. The maar formed through a water-magma explosion...

Lake Purrumbete is a large, deep volcanic crater lake in Victoria, Australia, formed within a maar and tuff-cone landscape. It is part of the volcanic lake district of western Victoria, where many water bodies occupy former eruption craters. The lake is known for recreational trout fishing and is of...

Gemündener Maar is a maar lake in Germany's Volcanic Eifel, near the town of Daun. It occupies a crater formed by a phreatomagmatic eruption, in which rising magma interacted explosively with groundwater, and the basin is estimated to be about 10,500 years old. The lake is part of the Eifel's volcan...

Hoya Rincón de Parangueo is a maar, a volcanic crater formed by explosive interaction between magma and groundwater, in Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, Mexico. Its crater once contained a lake, but the water largely disappeared after the 1980s, leaving a pale, salt-encrusted floor that makes the form...

Laguna de Aljojuca, also called the Aljojuca maar, is a maar crater lake in Puebla, Mexico. A maar forms when a volcanic explosion excavates a broad, usually low-rimmed crater, which can later fill with groundwater or rainwater; this origin distinguishes it from a cone built mainly by lava or ash. A...

Lake Lanoto'o is a volcanic crater lake on Upolu, one of Samoa's main islands. It lies within Lake Lanoto'o National Park, a protected area that includes montane rainforest and surrounding volcanic terrain. The lake is known for its dark green appearance and natural setting rather than for extensive...