Lakes on the Earth: July 2019

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12 Strangest Lakes in the World

From the biggest lake ever, to the mysterious "spotted" lake in Canada, these are the 12 STRANGEST Lakes In The World!

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The Lake

A lake is a large body of water (larger and deeper than a pond) within a body of land. As a lake is separated from the ocean. Lakes do not flow, like rivers, but many have rivers flowing into and out of them.

Lakes can be formed as a result of tectonic, volcanic, or even glacial activities, but intentional and accidental human activities also have created and destroyed many lakes.

Looking at natural causes of lake formation, the fact that most of the world’s great lakes are in North America is by no coincidence. This has come to be because, in the distant past, the region was covered in glaciers and, as these glaciers move constantly, their removal of earth and deposition of melting ice water causes lakes to be formed. Lakes serve as important habitats and water resources.

Most lakes on the surface of the Earth are freshwater and most are in the Northern Hemisphere. More than 60% of the lakes of the world are in Canada. There are 187,888 lakes in Finland, and also Finland is known as The Land of the Thousand Lakes.

Where the water evaporates rapidly and the soil around the lake has a high salt level, as in very dry places, the water of the lake has a high concentration of salt and the lake is called a salt lake. Examples of salt lakes are the Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Dead Sea.

Many lakes are man-made reservoirs built to produce electricity, for recreation, or to use the water for irrigation or industry, or in houses.

Dangerous Lakes

Most people can't imagine their vacation without somebody of water nearby, be it a lake or an ocean. But there are waters on our planet that can be deadly for revelers.

The searcher would like to tell you about several places on Earth whose beauty is only for watching from a safe distance. There is a list of the most dangerous lakes in the world.

1. Lake Kivu

Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. This seemingly peaceful lake keeps a deadly secret: there are layers of CO2 in it and 55 billion cubic meters of methane at the bottom.

2. Drake Passage

The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Lots of icebergs, wind speeds reaching 80 miles per hour, strong currents, and poor visibility are part of the ordeal that ships going through the Drake Passage must survive.

3. Rio Tinto (river)

The Río Tinto is a river in southwestern Spain that rises in the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalucia. Fossil excavation that has been carried out at the head of the Tinto River for more than 3,000 years leads to it being saturated with copper, iron, and heavy metals, with the acidity leaping sky-high. However, even in such conditions, there's the river's own ecosystem that includes bacteria that oxidize metals and make the water bright red.

4. Boiling Lake, Dominica

The Boiling Lake is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica's World Heritage site. It is a flooded fumarole 6.5 miles east of Roseau. The lake is approximately 200 feet to 250 feet across.

This mountain lake located eight hours from the ground may heat up to 198°F (92°C) due to hot air spurts from beneath the ground. Swimming in the lake is strictly prohibited even if there are no characteristic bubbles on its surface because boiling starts in a matter of seconds.

5. Horseshoe Lake

Horseshoe Lake is a lake located in the eastern part of Lassen Volcanic National Park near Juniper Lake, in Shasta County, California. The lake lies at an elevation of 6,550 ft. The carbon dioxide emitted from the fissures in the bottom of Horseshoe Lake is deadly for everything. The lake was the cause of the death of four people, as well as trees growing 100 acres around it. The danger is announced by signs all around.

6. Blue Hole, Dahab

The Blue Hole is a diving location on the southeast Sinai, a few kilometers north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. The The Blue Hole is possibly the most dangerous place for diving in the world as many divers have died in this 400-foot deep cave. The cause of death is usually nitrogen narcosis or insufficient air capacity upon ascent.

7. Lake Natron, Tanzania

Lake Natron is a mineral-rich soda lake in northern Tanzania, at the border with Kenya. It sits below Ol Doinyo Lengai, a soaring active volcano in the Rift Valley.

More than that, Lake Natron is one of the saltiest and most alkaline lakes on Earth, covered with a salt crust that's sometimes colored red. The water temperature reaches 120°F (50°C) in certain places, which makes it, along with alkalinity, almost unfit for life. Only three kinds of fish live here, adapting to extreme conditions.

8. Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second-largest of Lakes.

Lake Michigan is almost as notorious as the Bermuda Triangle because it's over this lake that one of the most horrible air crashes in North America occurred for no logical reasons. Riddles aside, the lake is a real danger due to its suddenly forming currents that, according to some sources, take several dozens of lives each year.

9. Jacob's Well

Jacob's Well is located northwest of Wimberley, Texas. and this 30-foot deep natural well with crystal clear water is one of the most dangerous diving places in the world. At the bottom of Jacob's Well, there are several entrances to a broad network of caves that many are unable to leave.

10. Great Blue Hole

The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. The hole is circular in shape, 318 m across and 124 m deep.

Tides turn the Great Blue Hole into a huge vortex that draws in everything on the surface, while ebbs make it spout huge columns of water. Despite all this, though, there still are many who want to see this hole because Jacques Cousteau himself called it one of the best places for diving on Earth.

Top Lakes

Top 10 largest lakes in the world

Lakes are larger and deeper when compared to the bodies of water we refer to as ponds, and many of them are fed and drained by streams and rivers. It’s estimated that there are around 2 million lakes across the globe.

Some lakes lie in mountainous areas, while others are found at elevations near sea level. Lakes can either be freshwater lakes, or saline lakes.

10. Great Slave Lake - 28,930 Square Kilometers (In the Northwest Territories of Canada)

9. Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa) - 30,044 Square Kilometers (In Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique)

8. Great Bear Lake - 31,080 Square Kilometers (In the Northwest Territories)

7. Lake Baikal - 31,500 Square Kilometers (In the mountainous Russian region of Siberia)

6. Lake Tanganyika - 32,893 Square Kilometers (In Africa)

5. Lake Michigan - 58,016 Square Kilometers (In the United States)

4. Lake Huron - 59,596 Square Kilometers (In North America)

3. Lake Victoria - 69,485 Square Kilometers (In Africa)

2. Lake Superior - 82,414 Square Kilometers (In North America)

1. Caspian Sea - 371,000 Square Kilometers (In many countries like Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan)

The 10 Most Famous Lakes in the World

On vacation, people usually spent their time to travel to anywhere, after working in their stress's office for a long time, especially they are looking for natural places likes mountains, sea, waterfall, desert or lakes.
And we gonna tell you about great lakes for your vacation. There is a list of best lakes that we searched for you. Read on to discover 10 of the world's most famous lakes.

10. Lake Malawi (Africa)