lake within Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, western , U.S., betw.... lake pyramid

lake within Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, western , U.S., between the Lake Range and the Virginia Mountains. The lake was visited in 1844 by the soldier-explorer , who named it for the largest of the lake's volcanic islands; Fr nt remarked that it rose, according to our estimate, 600 feet above the water, and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops. lake pyramid