Red Lotus Lake, Kumphawapi, Thailand
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2016
There is lake called Nong Han Kumphawapi in northeast Thailand, north of the town of Kumphawapi, and about 50 kilometers away from Udon Than...
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Lake Magadi, Kenya’s Pink Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
Lake Magadi is located in the Great Rift Valley, in southern Kenya, in a vast depression whose bed is made almost entirely of solid or semis...
The Spectacular Waves of Lake Erie
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
It’s hard to believe these pictures of gigantic, thrashing waves were not captured in the ocean but on the shallowest of the Great Lakes of ...
The Ice of Lake Baikal
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 30, 2015
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, remains covered with ice for almost five months a year. Every winter as the temperature plummets below zero...
The World Map at Lake Klejtrup
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2015
The World Map on the banks of the Lake Klejtrup in Denmark is a 4,000-square-meter walkable map of the world built out of soil, stones and g...
Lac de Gafsa: Tunisia’s Mysterious Lake That Appeared Overnight
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 2, 2015
Mehdi Bilel was returning home after attending a marriage in the north of Tunisia when he spotted a large lake glimmering in the hot sun, in...
Oregon's Lost Lake Disappears Each Summer Down a Hole
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2015
The U.S. state of Oregon has at least 19 lakes named “Lost Lake”, but possibly only one fits the name. This particular Lost Lake is located ...
The Salt Lake Tuz of Turkey
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 22, 2015
Lake Tuz, or Tuz Golu in Turkish, is a saline lake located in a huge area in the arid central plateau of Turkey, about 105 km northeast of K...
Koyashskoye Salt Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2015
Koyashskoye is a salt lake located on the coast of the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea, and separated from the Black Sea by a strip of land. Like ...
IJsseloog: A Sludge Storage Tank in the Middle of a Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2015
IJsseloog, or the “Eye of IJssel”, is an enormous circular pit in the middle of Ketelmeer lake in the mouth of the river IJssel, in the prov...
Potash Evaporation Ponds in Utah
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2015
These electric blue shapes in the brown desert are potash evaporation ponds managed by Intrepid Potash, Inc., the United States’ largest pro...
The Mysterious Lakes of Badain Jaran Desert
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2015
The Badain Jaran Desert occupies parts of China and Inner Mongolia covering an area of 49,000 sq. kilometers making it the third largest des...
The Disappearing Lake Urmia of Iran
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2015
Lake Urmia, in north-western Iran, was once one of the largest permanent saline lake in the world and the second largest in the Middle East,...
The Lakes of Ubari Sand Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 4, 2015
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. But 200,000 years ago, this was a wet ...
Travertine Chimneys of Lake Abbe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2014
Lake Abbe is a salt lake, the largest and last of a chain of six connected lakes on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. The lake lies on a basin c...
The Old Man of The Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 25, 2014
In 1886, when geologist Joseph S. Diller was making the first geological study of Oregon’s Crater Lake, in the US, he noticed a tree stump c...
Lake Amadeus, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 18, 2014
Lake Amadeus is a huge salt lake located the southwest corner of Australia's Northern Territory, about 50 km north of Uluru or Ayers Roc...
Don Juan Pond: The Saltiest Body of Water on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2014
Don Juan Pond is a small, ankle-deep lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, nestled in Wright Valley between the Asgard Mou...
Intricate Ice Crack Patterns on Lake Puma Yumco
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2014
Lake Puma Yumco, located on the Tibetan Plateau, is one of the most remote lakes in the world. The lake is 32 km long and 13 km wide and is ...
Lake Heviz: Europe's Largest Thermal Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 13, 2014
Lake Heviz is located close to the town of Heviz in Hungary, near the western end of Lake Balaton, about 8 km away from Keszthely. At 47,500...
