#uvs nuur

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Satellite image of the Mongolian salt lake Uvs Nuur. As you can see, the lake is at the bottom of a bowl-shaped section of desert surrounded by mountains, so no rivers flow out of it. Water can only escape by evaporation, leaving salt behind, so the water is pretty salty - about half as salty as the ocean.

There are fish in the lake, but I have no idea how they got there, since it isn’t connected to any other water in the world.

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(via Uvs Nuur Basin in Mongolia : Image of the Day)