Monday, March 23
Stupid Facts
So for some reason I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the geography of the Northern Territory. Blah blah blah, largest lake is Lake Amadeus, with an area of WTF km2.
There's a lake of over 1000 km2 in the Northern Territory?! I know the northern parts along the Gulf of Carpentaria and Timor Sea are positively soggy, but most of the state is arid, and I'd have noticed a lake that big on a map just by casual inspection.
So for some reason I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the geography of the Northern Territory. Blah blah blah, largest lake is Lake Amadeus, with an area of WTF km2.
There's a lake of over 1000 km2 in the Northern Territory?! I know the northern parts along the Gulf of Carpentaria and Timor Sea are positively soggy, but most of the state is arid, and I'd have noticed a lake that big on a map just by casual inspection.
Oh.
Right.
Salt lake.
Most of the time, dry salt lake.
Like Lake Eyre, which is the largest lake in Australia, and the 18th largest lake in the world.... When it has water in it.
Or the Todd River, where the annual regatta had to be cancelled in 1993 because there was water in the river.
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