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seen from Brazil
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favourite inland sea/big lake?
black sea
lake baikal
lake victoria
lake malawi
caspian sea
aral sea
lake tanganyika
north american great lakes
lake chad
lake balkash
issyk kul
other
Favorite inland sea/big lake?
Black Sea
Lake Baikal
Lake Victoria
Lake Malawi
Caspian Sea
Aral Sea
Lake Tanganyika
North American Great Lakes
Lake Chad
Lake Balkhash
Issyk Kul
Other (comment below)
NASA Johnson - A Turquoise Lake Balkhash
(via Lake Balkhash : Image of the Day)
Children enjoy swimming in Lake Balkhash in Priozersk, Kazakhstan, 2011. From the series “Eurasia”, photo by Ikuru Kuwajima.
Balkhash: Father or Natural Phenomenon
By Yerbolat Uatkhanov
An ancient Kazakh legend says a rich man named Balkhash had a daughter – beautiful Ili. Once, he held a feast and promised to give her to the winner of the groom contest as a wife. Ili, however, loved a shepherd, Karatal, and helped him win. When Balkhash chose not to give Ili to Karatal, the young lovers ran away. As the angry father couldn’t catch them, he turned the couple into rivers, then made himself as a lake between them.
This gorgeous legend tells the story of a lake and the rivers it divides. The legend is mystic, but no more so than Lake Balkhash: it is separated by a strait into two distinct parts; the western portion is fresh, the eastern half, saline.
Read more: http://www.edgekz.com/balkhash-father-or-natural-phenomenon/
(via Ice Melts on Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan : Image of the Day)
Kazakhstan desert!
Lake Balkhash
Located in Kazakhstan, Lake Balkhash is the 12th largest lake in the world, but that characteristic is hardly what makes it interesting. This lake is bizarre because half of the lake consists of freshwater and the other half is saltwater.
Balkhash maintains this unlikely balance in part because the two halves are joined by a narrow straight that is 3.5 kilometers wide and six meters deep.
There is some concern that Lake Balkhash could dry up like the Aral Sea, since many of its source waters are being diverted.
(FROM THE MOTHER NATURE NETWORK)
