Bassenthwaite Lake Bassenthwaite Lake Bassenthwaite Lake is one of the largest water bodies in the English Lake District. It is long and narrow, approximately long and wide, but is also extremely shallow, with a maximum depth of about . It is the only body of water in the Lake District to use the word ""lake"" in its name, all the others being ""waters"" (for example, Derwentwater), ""meres"" (for example, Windermere) or ""tarns"" (for example, Dock Tarn). It is fed by, and drains into, the River Derwent. The lake lies at the foot of Skiddaw, near the town of Keswick. Some maps dating
Lake of the Dead based on the 1942 novel by the same name, written by André Bjerke, the movie is shot all Black-and-white. "Lake of the Dead" was nominated as the fourth-best film of all time in Norway in a test developed by "Dagbladet" in 1998, were 101 movie critics gave Norwegian movies points. "Lake of the Dead" is in strong competition with "Villmark" for the title of the best Norwegian horror movie of all time. Both movies take place by a lake. A DVD was released October 14, 2009, with an English subtitled feature. Before that, the movie was hardly known outside of