its a little U-shaped bend on the side of a river
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May not be stagnant, but could be called a Mortlake or an Oxbow lake
An Oxbow Lake is a lake formed by U-shaped body of water. Billabong is the terms used for Oxbow Lake in Australia.
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A river can create meanders (bends) which can form a separate lake known as an oxbow lake.
Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing approximately 20% of the Earth's unfrozen freshwater.