Pink Lake

At the edge of the middle island (Middle Island) is a mysterious pink lake surrounded by legends. Above the surface shiny pink Hiller lake (Lake Hillier) resembles the icing on the cake medulla. This lake is wooded corner of Middle Island gives unexpected shades. Middle Island is one of 100 small islands in the archipelago of studies stretches along the south coast of Western Australia. Most puzzling is the natural attractions of Australia - Lake Hiller and his pink vody.



Shallow salt lake, the entire width of about 600 m. Even more impressive unearthly landscape gives the lake white ribbon around it. The lake is surrounded by bright green eucalyptus trees, separated from the ocean by only a narrow strip of white sand dunes. In 1950, the pink color of the lake studied a group of scientists who hoped to find in saltwater lake algae - red seaweed (Dunaliella salina). The very salty water, the algae emit red pigment that colors pink other Australian lakes, such as on the mainland, near Esperance, located lake. Taken from the lake water sample Hiller did not find any traces of algae, so the color of the lake is still zagadkoy.



The first mention of "pink" lake on the island dates back to the Middle 1802, when British navigator Matthew Flinders hydrograph and stopped here on the way to Sydney. Later, there were several short-term commercial projects in 1820 - 1840 years the island stayed sealers and whalers, and in the early twentieth of lake water began to produce salt. But after six years of salt mining has been stopped, and since then the silence of the island and the lake rose Hiller nobody else trevozhit.







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