Lake Mamry

Mamry is a broad expanse of water in the Masurian Lake District, made up of several connected lakes and dotted with islands. Its shores are often low, marshy and wooded, while the lakebed alternates between deep hollows and shallows. The waters once formed separate lakes joined by streams. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries their level rose by several metres, influenced in part by a mill dam on the Węgorapa. Some settlements, burial grounds and an old road disappeared beneath the water.