When we reached the top by the shining granite walls of the road cut through the mountain, a huge sunburst illuminated the peak of Mount Brandon, and laid out before us were the dark tarns that held trout and the gleaming thread of the Cloghane River, where the salmon and white trout ran 3,000 feet below. (si.com)
A spiderweb of small rivers form, cutting channels in the ice and spilling into a series of glacial tarns at the mouth of the basin. (scientificamerican.com)
Nine miles east of Carlisle, this 165 acre country park, back - dropped by the spectacular Pennine Hills has a ten thousand year old glacial tarn at its centre. (raildiscoveries.com)