Lake Mälaren, also called Lake Mälar, lake in eastern Sweden, located just west of Stockholm, which lies at the lake–€™s junction with Salt Bay, an arm of the Baltic Sea. At one time Lake Mälaren was a bay of the Baltic, and seagoing vessels using it were able to sail far into the interior of Sweden. Because of movements of Earth–€™s crust, however, the rock barrier at the mouth of the bay had become so shallow by about 1200 that ships had to unload near the entrance, and the bay became a lake.

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