The easternmost and smallest by surface area of the Great Lakes, receiving the outflow of Niagara Falls and draining into the Saint Lawrence River toward the Atlantic. Its shores hold the cities of Toronto and Rochester.
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Source Lake Ontario (Wikipedia)
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Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and the smallest in surface area (19,000 square kilometres [7,340 mi2]), of which about 10,000 square kilometres (3,980 mi2) is in Canada and 9,000 square kilometres (3,560 mi2) in the United States.
Shaped By: Glacial Erosion, Formation statement for target 287667
The lake basin was carved out of soft, weak Silurian-age rocks by the Wisconsin ice sheet during the last ice age.
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