Lake islands are pretty much what you think they are, a landmass within a lake. Sometimes however, some of these island support a lake within themselves, and sometimes those lakes contain an island of their own, and so on. These islands in a lake on an island in a lake, and so on, can also be known as recursive lake islands. Some of the most stark of these islands occur as the result of volcanic activity, with caldera lakes and lake islands forming from resurgent domes and multiple eruptions over a long period of time. Most of the recursive islands though tend to appear in the Canada.
Some of the largest of these are listed below:
- Largest lake on an island: Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island, Canada
- Largest island on a lake: Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Canada
- Largest island in a lake on an island: Pulau Samosir in Danau Toba on Sumatra, Indonesia
- Largest lake on an island in a lake: Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron
- Largest lake on an island in a lake on an island: a nameless lake on a nameless island in Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island, Canada
- Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake: Treasure Island in Mindemoya Lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Canada
- Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island: is a nameless island in a lake on an island in Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island, Canada
References:
NASA Earth Observatory: Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island, Image of the Day