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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)
The Lake Chad crisis. Orphaned children, mainly Nigerian refugees, live together as a group in Koran schools. During the day, they go begging, photography Marco Gualazzini, 2019
the Love Goddess of Lake Chad, 1962
Lake Chad, Chad (via Google Maps)
Lake Chad
Lake Chad gave its name to the country of Chad. The name Chad is derived from the Kanuri word “Sádǝ” meaning "large expanse of water". The lake is the remnant of a former inland sea, paleolake Mega-Chad, which existed during the African humid period. At its largest, sometime before 5000 BC, Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan paleolakes, and is estimated to have covered an area of 1,000,000 km2 (390,000 sq mi), larger than the Caspian Sea is today, and may have extended as far northeast as within 100 km (62 mi) of Faya-Largeau.
Wikipedia, “Lake Chad”, 2. History
Bodélé Depression (Nigeria, February 2004).
At the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Bodélé Depression used to be part of the floor of a much larger Lake Chad, but it is now slowly being transformed into a desert landscape. In the mid-1960s, Lake Chad was about the size of Lake Erie. Since then, persistent drought conditions, along with increased demand for freshwater for irrigation, have reduced the lake to about 5% of its former size.
As the waters receded, the silts and sediments on the lakebed were left to dry in the hot sun. The small grains of silty sand are easily swept up by strong gusts of wind that occasionally blow over the region. Once aloft, dust from the Bodélé Depression can be carried for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometres.
Lake Chad is the olive-green part surrounded by the tan and light brown colours of the surrounding landcape, where Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon share borders.
Lorenzo Meloni
