Balaton Uplands National Park Balaton Uplands National Park In 1997 a protected ecological system embracing the adjoining area of the Balaton Uplands (northern shoreland of the Lake Balaton) was established with the connection of the already protected areas which had been separate for a long time. The area of 56 997 hectares of the Balaton-felvidéki National Park mainly consists of these six landscape protection areas. The national park headquartered in Veszprém, in the largest city of the Balaton area. In 1952 the first protected landscape area of Hungary was created in the most attractive, most varied and scientifically best researched area of the country.
Amisk Lake Amisk Lake Amisk (Beaver) Lake is a lake in east-central Saskatchewan (southwest of Flin Flon) in Canada. 'Amisk' means beaver in Cree. Saskatchewan Highway 167 provides road access. Denare Beach, the largest settlement, is located on the east side of the lake. Amisk Lake is on the Sturgeon-Weir River, an important part of the canoe route from eastern Canada to the rich Lake Athabasca country. There was an independent trading post on Amisk Lake (Beaver Lake) in 1775 and a Hudson's Bay Company trading post in 1776. In June 1775 Alexander Henry the elder left Montreal with 16 canoes and