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Elizabeth Lake lies directly on the San Andreas earthquake fault within the Angeles National Forest in northwest Los Angeles County, California. Situated in the western Antelope Valley and surrounded by the rolling golden foothills of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, it is one of a series of sag ponds in the area. Others include Hughes Lake and the Munz Lakes, all created by the motion of the Earth's tectonic plates. ==Nomenclature== In 1780, the Spanish explorer-priest Junipero Serra named the water La Laguna de Diablo (Devil's Lake) because some who lived nearby believed that within it dwelt a pet of the devil, which came to be known as the Elizabeth Lake Monster. Sometime after 1834, the lake was called Liebre (Rabbit) for a very short time. Then in the 1840s it became known as La Laguna de Chico Lopez, for Francisco "Chico" Lopez, who grazed cattle on its banks.〔( Mildred Brooke Hoover, E. G. Rensch and H. E. Rensch, Historic Spots In California: The Southern Counties, Stanford University Press, 1932, pp.85-86 )〕 In 1849, Elizabeth Wingfield was camping with her family beside the lake. Walking on a log to fill buckets for cooking and drinking, Elizabeth slipped and fell in. She was not injured, but several other vacationing families witnessed her mishap, and in fun they began calling the lake Elizabeth's Lake. The name caught on and locals started referring to the water as Elizabeth Lake; later it became official. It is now sometimes incorrectly referred to as Lake Elizabeth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Lake (Los Angeles County, California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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