Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area is a National Marine Conservation Area (NMCA) on the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, and is a unit of the national park system. Established on September 1, 2015, it is the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world. Although national marine parks and a reserve had been created previously, and managed as NMCAs, this was the first area in Canada to be designated a "National Marine Conservation Area" as defined by the Marine Conservation Areas Act. Plans to create it were first announced by Canadian
Lake Sebezhskoye Lake Sebezhskoye Sebezhskoye or Sebezh (Себежское) is a freshwater lake in the southwest of Pskov Oblast in Russia, close to the borders with Latvia and Belarus. It has a surface area of . The lake takes its name from Sebezh, a town sitting on a low-lying promontory jutting out into the lake. The lake surface lies above sea level. Its maximum depth is . In 1996, the lake basin with a cluster of similar lakes was designated the Sebezhsky National Park. The biggest tributary of the lake is the Cherneya River, which drains into Lake Sebezhskoye from the east. The