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Melchsee is a lake in the canton of Obwalden, Switzerland. It lends its name to the resort Melchsee-Frutt, in the municipality of Kerns. At an elevation of 1891 m, its surface area is .

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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Melchsee, and connects out to Switzerland, lake and geographic coordinate system.

The entry is geolocated on the map in waterbody_region, across 2 mapped points.

It is catalogued under topics including Kerns, Switzerland, Lakes of Obwalden and Lakes of the Swiss Alps.

Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Lake.name
Melchsee
Lake.image
Melchsee_ganz.jpg
Lake.location
Obwalden
Lake.type
reservoir, natural lake, oligotrophic
Lake.basin_countries
Switzerland
Lake.pushpin_map
Canton of Obwalden#Canton of Bern#Canton of Valais#Switzerland#Alps
Lake.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Lake.mapframe
yes
Lake.mapframe zoom
14

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
lake
Area
0.54
Elevation
1891
Image
Melchsee ganz.jpg
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Commons category
Melchsee
vertical depth
18
mountain range
Alps
basin country
Switzerland
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Melchsee is a lake in the canton of Obwalden, Switzerland. It lends its name to the resort Melchsee-Frutt, in the municipality of Kerns. At an elevation of 1891 m, its surface area is .

==See also== List of lakes of Switzerland List of mountain lakes of Switzerland

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melchsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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