editor’s note: wow! so much is just literally fading away….disappearing. this lake ~ 3 kilometer’s long (almost 2 miles). all is well. just part of the transition.
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This is just incredible! An entire lake has disappeared on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia as reported by researchers from the project “The Open Ocean: Archipelagos of the Arctic”. The expedition was sent in this remote area in an attempt to survey Lake Usacheva, but stumbled upon an empty reservoir with its bottom scarred by cracks and fissures.
Researchers report of their Facebook Page:
“We are not talking here about a small lake near the sea shore, which, for example, can break through the channel and drain into the sea, but about the large and deep lake Usacheva, that is at least 3 kilometers long, and a few kilometers distant from the sea. […] The guys walked on the dried bottom of the lake for more than one and a half kilometers, and as shown in the photographs, it’s a continuous clay desert, covered with a grid of cracks and fissures from erosion […] ”
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