REASONS THAT LAKES ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU THINK
Added on: 5th Sep 2016
DUE TO THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURE,
DEPTH, AND ALTITUDE, BODIES OF PEOPLE THAT
DROWN IN LAKE TAHOE (USA) NEVER DECOMPOSE
OR SURFACE
HYDROLOGICALLY SPEAKING, THERE ARE ONLY 4
GREAT LAKES AND NOT 5. LAKE MICHIGAN AND LAKE
HURON ARE ACTUALLY ONLY 1 LAKE (HURON-MICHIGAN)
AND IT IS THE LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE BY AREA
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
IN 2014, AN UNEXPLAINED 10 METRE DEEP LAKE
ALL OF A SUDDEN APPEARED IN DROUGHT STRICKEN
TUNISIA. GEOLOGISTS THINK THAT THE LAKE COULD
HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF SEISMIC ACTIVITY
IN THE MOVIE TITANIC, JACK CLAIMS TO HAVE GONE
FISHING ON LAKE WISSOTA IN WISCONSIN. THIS
MAN-MADE LAKE DIDN'T EVEN EXIST UNTIL 1917,
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE TITANIC SANK
ON LAKE TITICACA IN PERU, THERE ARE PRE-INCAN
PEOPLE STILL LIVING ON THE LAKE IN THEIR
FLOATING HOMES (UROS)
MOUNT STORM LAKE IN WEST VIRGINIA IS HEATED
BY A LOCAL POWER PLANT SO EVEN IN SUB-ZERO
TEMPERATURES THE WATER STAYS RELATIVELY WARM
IN 1980, AN OIL RIG IN LAKE PEIGNEUR, LOUISIANA
DRILLED INTO A SALT MINE. THE ENSUING WHIRLPOOL
SUCKED THE DRILL AS WELL AS 11 BARGES INTO
THE "DRAIN". ALTHOUGH NO LIVES WERE LOST,
THE LAKE IS NOW SALT WATER
IN 1875, A MAN NAMED JAMES WICKHAM RELEASED
TWO WHALES INTO THE GREAT SALT LAKE IN UTAH.
THEY WERE NEVER SEEN FROM AGAIN AND
SCIENTISTS DOUBT THEY COULD HAVE
SURVIVED FOR LONG
IN THE MIDDLE OF LAKE SUPERIOR IS ISLE ROYALE.
ON ISLE ROYALE YOU WILL FIND THE SISKIWIT LAKE.
IN THE MIDDLE OF SISKIWIT LAKE IS RYAN ISLAND.
ON RYAN ISLAND IS A SMALL POND CALLED
MOOSE FLATS. IN THE MIDDLE OF MOOSE FLATS
IS A ROCK JUTTING UP CALLED MOOSE BOULDER.
THIS MAKES MOOSE BOULDER THE LARGEST ISLAND
ON THE LARGEST LAKE ON THE LARGEST ISLAND
IN THE LARGEST LAKE ON THE LARGEST ISLAND
IN ONE OF THE LARGEST LAKES ON EARTH
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