Lake Mjøsa, Ringsaker, Innlandet, Norwayi

Regional Level Types
Lake Mjøsa	Lake
Ringsaker	Municipality
Innlandet	County
Norway	Country

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Mjøsa is Norway's largest lake, as well as one of the deepest lakes in Norway and in Europe. It is the fourth-deepest lake in Norway. It is located in the southern part of Norway, about 100 kilometres (ca. 62 mi) north of the city of Oslo. Its main tributary is the river Gudbrandsdalslågen flowing in from the north; the only distributary is the river Vorma in the south. Inflows would theoretically need 5.6 years to fill the lake. With an average depth of about 150 metres (ca. 492 ft), most of the lake's volume is under sea level. The average outflow of the lake (measured from 1931 to 1982) is 316 cubic metres per second (11,200 cu ft/s), which is about 9,959,000,000 cubic metres per year (1.1145×10¹⁰ cu ft/s). Mjøsa contains about 56 cubic kilometres (45,000,000 acre⋅ft) of water compared to the 15 cubic kilometres (12,000,000 acre⋅ft) in the lake Røssvatnet, the second-largest lake by volume in Norway.

With a surface elevation of about 121 metres (ca. 397 ft), the depth of Mjøsa means that the deepest part of the basin is located approximately 332 metres (ca. 1,089 ft) below sea level. This is lower than the deepest point of the sea inlet of Kattegat and lower than the vast majority of Skagerrak off Norway's south coast. Mjøsa retains a larger average depth than both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, respectively.

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