The Ord River.
Lake Burley Griffin
Lake Argyle is the largest artificial lake in Australia. It was made as a part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
Lake Nasser.
Lake Powell which was created by the buiiding of the Glen Canyon Dam.
Lake Nasser.
The Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam as it was first called.
Lake Nasser - Behind the Aswan High Dam -
Lake Burley Griffin, around which Canberra is planned, is actually a man-made lake, created by damming the Molonglo River.
There are the Menindee Lakes and Lake George, while man-made lakes formed by damming rivers include Lake Eucumbene, Lake Hume and Lake Jindabyne.
Argyle Lake State Park was created in 1948.
The two big ones that come to mind are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, but there's also Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu.
usually lake are formed by rivers are formed by meanders, twists and turns in a river, overlapping and not going over the turn, filling up into a lake or pond.