And I'm sort of asking if anyone knows of any real-world examples of this happening. If so, then I'm content to include it in my world. If there's no real world examples, then I'm prepared to call it unrealistic and thus dismiss it entirely.
Heh. I found the question interesting, which helped - I'd been thinking along the same lines as in lindenfoxcub's comment below, that while it could happen, over time one channel would erode more while others would silt up until eventually only one was left, but that led me to think that there must be lakes somewhere that were in the right ... stage of development, say, to still have multiple exits.
So I used a bit of a brute force attack: wikipedia 'Lake', get distracted by endorheic lakes and go off and look at the Okavango delta for a while, then read through the original article to find the 'list of notable lakes', and oh look there is one. But as londubh points out below, Woolaston Lake is in a rather flat and soggy place (one great big hard-to-define watershed!), and as melannen says, it's geologically quite young, so the waterways are probably changing all the time
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So I used a bit of a brute force attack: wikipedia 'Lake', get distracted by endorheic lakes and go off and look at the Okavango delta for a while, then read through the original article to find the 'list of notable lakes', and oh look there is one. But as londubh points out below, Woolaston Lake is in a rather flat and soggy place (one great big hard-to-define watershed!), and as melannen says, it's geologically quite young, so the waterways are probably changing all the time ( ... )
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