Lake Tom

Lake Tom
	View from Pizzo Taneda (2668 m) down to Lake Tom (center) and the larger Lake Ritóm
Geographical location	Canton Ticino , Switzerland
Tributaries	some mountain streams
Drain	without drain
	Data
Coordinates	695 927 / 156209 coordinates: 46 ° 33 ' N , 8 ° 41' O ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-five thousand nine hundred twenty-seven / 156209
Altitude above sea level	2020 m above sea level M.
surface	9 km²
length	450 km
width	320 km
Maximum depth	15 m
	The lake from the north

The Lago di Tom (also Tomsee or Lago Tom ) is a mountain lake in the Swiss municipality of Quinto in the canton of Ticino .

The outflow-free lake is at an altitude of 2020 m above sea level. M. north of Lake Ritóm in a depression formed by a glacier. It is around 15 meters deep and nine hectares in size. The water flows off through a karst cave and emerges again a little south of the lake.

The Lago di Tom is known for its white sandy beach consisting of "sugar dolomite". The sugary dolomite of the Val Piora that emerges here worried the builders of the Gotthard Base Tunnel a few kilometers to the east when they were planning.

Traces of settlement from the Bronze Age were found on the lake .

There are brown trout , arctic char and American arctic char in the lake . At the southwest end are the huts of Alpe Tom. The hiking trail leads past the lake from Lago Ritóm to the Cadlimohütte .

Web links

Commons : Lago di Tom - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Swisstopo
^ ^A ^b ^c Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910, p. 152, keyword Tom (Lago) ( scan of the lexicon page ).

↑ Lago di Tom (Piora, TI). In: schweizersee.ch. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c Raffaele Peduzzi, Walter Wildi, Centro Biologia Alpina (ed.): Piora - Lago di Cadagno - Ritóm. Nature and Environment Guide . March 2015, p. 50–52 ( unige.ch [PDF; accessed on July 4, 2020]).

↑ Joachim Laukenmann: Mountains under pressure . In: Sunday newspaper . July 17, 2011 ( hydrologischeratlas.ch [PDF; accessed July 4, 2020]).

↑ The mountain lakes. In: Rifugio Lago Ritom. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .

[Swisstopo-1] Swisstopo

[geolexikon-2] A ^b ^c Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuchâtel 1910, p. 152, keyword Tom (Lago) ( scan of the lexicon page ).

[3] Lago di Tom (Piora, TI). In: schweizersee.ch. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .

[cba-4] Raffaele Peduzzi, Walter Wildi, Centro Biologia Alpina (ed.): Piora - Lago di Cadagno - Ritóm. Nature and Environment Guide . March 2015, p. 50–52 ( unige.ch [PDF; accessed on July 4, 2020]).

[5] Joachim Laukenmann: Mountains under pressure . In: Sunday newspaper . July 17, 2011 ( hydrologischeratlas.ch [PDF; accessed July 4, 2020]).

[6] The mountain lakes. In: Rifugio Lago Ritom. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .