Places Tagged ‘lake’
27 JANUARY 2010 | MOUNTAINS | View Comments

Surrounded by the endless plains and fields, Grampians mountains range is one of the most popular tourist destinations in western Victoria that offers almost all possible outdoor activities in the same place: hiking and rock climbing, camping, exploring wilderness of mountain ranges and wetlands, swimming and canoeing, fishing or simply sightseeing.
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TAGS: aboriginal, art, Australia, cliff, climb, gariwerd, grampians, hill, lake, mounatin, park, peak, range, rock, Victoria, waterfall
15 DECEMBER 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK | View Comments

Intense colours – these two words always come to my mind when I think about Australian Outback – red soil and incredibly clear deep blue sky mixed with ancient landscapes create amazing scenery. If you add some lakes and rivers to this mix, you get something even more outstanding – and I will not be surprised if it was one of the unofficial reasons why Menindee Lakes System was constructed …
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TAGS: Australia, dead, flood, lake, New South Wales, outback, reflection, river, shape, silhouette, tree, water
6 JULY 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK | View Comments

Once a bottom of a huge 160-kilometre long and 180-metre deep lake – Badwater Basin is now a deepest, hottest and driest place in North America.
Located in the eastern part of the Death Valley National Park, 26 kilometres south of Furnace Creek, this place is easy to find.
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TAGS: basin, bottom, California, death, Desert, dry, flat, lake, playa, salt, shape, surface, USA
1 MARCH 2009 | DESERTS AND OUTBACK | View Comments

Lake Gairdner stretches for 160 kilometers in length and 48 kilometers across and is a fourth largest dry salt lake in Australia after Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens and Lake Frome. Some places can have a layer of dry salt up to 1 meter thick.
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TAGS: Desert, dry, lake, salt, South Australia