35 Cools Facts About Lakes

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26Isa Lake 

Isa Lake 

Isa Lake in Yellowstone National Park is the only lake in the world that drains to 2 separate oceans.


27. Lake Hillier in Australia is a naturally-occurring neon pink lake and it is the only lake in the world to naturally stay colored all year round and scientists still aren't sure exactly why the salt and bacteria in the lake react this way and nowhere else in the world.


28. Hawaii's largest freshwater lake, Green Lake (Ka Wai o Pele), no longer exists as it completely boiled away during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.


29. The deepest depths of Lake Erie are still at a higher elevation than the surface of Lake Ontario. The two lakes are only separated by about 21 miles (34 kilometers).


30. Lake Peigneur became the deepest lake in Lousiana in 1980 after the Gulf Of Mexico flowed into it as a result of Texaco employees accidentally flushing the entire lake like a toilet into the salt mine beneath it.


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31Lake Vostok

Lake Vostok

Lake Vostok, in Antarctica, is the 16th largest lake in the world. The lake water itself has been isolated for upwards of 15 million years, sealed off by a sheet of ice.


32. A turquoise lake in Siberia is nicknamed the "Novosibirsk Maldives" because of how tropical it looks. Popular with Instagrammers, it is actually a power plant's ash dump, and the lake gets its distinct color from calcium salts and other metal oxides. The water in the lake is actually toxic and it is dangerous to swim in it.


33. Summersville Lake is the largest lake in West Virginia. It was constructed in the early 1960s when the Gauley River was dammed at the village of Gad (which is now under its waters) but the powers that be decided not to name it the Gad Dam.


34. East Lake in Wuhan is the second-largest urban lake in China. Each year, about 441 tons of nitrogen and 40 tons of phosphorus flow into the lake. Most parts of the lake have been assessed as eutrophicated, unsuitable for drinking, and many recreational purposes.


35. The Battle of Lake Poyang (1363) was a naval battle that led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty. It is claimed to be the largest naval battle in history in terms of personnel, with a reported 850,000 sailors involved. The Yuan dynasty was established by Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan.

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