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Lake Ha?cza Few places look as dramatic as the dazzlingly beautiful as the north-eastern fringes of Poland. It's a land generously bestowed by Nature with undulating plains dominated by lofty hills, dozens of bizarrely shaped lakes, rivers, streams and brooks, deep ravines, and thousand of erratic boulders. The Suwałki region holds 160 lakes over 1 hectare in size, including the famous Lake Hańcza. Most of them are long, narrow and deep troughs, often connected by rivers, which, like the Rospuda, constitute scenic boating course popular with conoeists. Thaw lakes are a fairly regular sight - wide, oval-shaped, with flattened shores punctuated by numerous coves. There are also countless small circular cave-in lakes, either deep, or shallow and overgrown. At 108.5 metres, Lake Hańcza is the deepest lake not only in Poland, but in the entire Central European Lowlands. Designated a reserve, it boasts other peculiar features like stony beaches, unique in lowland areas, a "marine" shelf, and relic species of crustaceans that are otherwise endemic to mountain lakes of Scandinavia.