World's strangest lakes世界上最奇特的湖泊
No jellyfish will sting you when you swim or snorkel in Palau's Jellyfish Lake.- There are more than 3 million lakes around the world
- Residents of Palau's Jellyfish Lake have lost the ability to sting
- In a yearly event, red lotus flowers cover 8,000 acres of a Thai lake
- No one knows how hot Boiling Lake in Dominica really gets
(CNN) -- Imagine walking through a far-flung island of forest and stumbling across a bright, pink lake. Or quietly rowing your boat through a sea of floating lotus flowers that expand as far as the eye can see. Dreamy? Yes, but also completely possible if you consider a visit to one of the world's strangest lakes.
Because lakes are mostly contained ecosystems, they have the uncanny ability to evolve in ways you might expect to come from the imagination of Dr. Seuss. Like Spotted Lake in Canada, which is considered one of the most bizarre natural wonders in the world, transmogrifying from an average-looking alpine lake into a field of gigantic green polka dots every summer.
There are more than 3 million or so lakes worldwide, so it takes quite an astounding trick to stand out. Some that caught our attention: a lake made of one of the purest skincare ingredients on earth and another with six-foot waves ideal for freshwater surfing.
Nature can also cook up some pretty forbidding lakeside scenes. At Tanzania's Lake Natron, where the water reaches 140 degrees, petrified bats and birds (even doves) have been found washed ashore.
For most travelers, of course, a lake vacation brings to mind more soothing, nostalgia-laden images. It's as classic an American experience as a summer road trip. So by all means, go visit any number of the beautiful lakes in our country's great outdoors. But if you're looking for a one-of-a-kind, see-it-to-believe-it experience, we recommend a detour to one of these peculiar pools instead.
Jellyfish Lake, Palau
By the ocean, jellyfish are a nuisance to swimmers, but taking a dip with them in Palau's Jellyfish Lake is an unexpected pleasure. These golden jellyfish are glowing orbs of pink and purple that range in size from a penny to a soccer ball and were cut off from their natural predators millennia ago. With no need to defend themselves, they evolved without the ability to sting—the only such known species of jellyfish. These blissful creatures do nothing more than soak up the sunlight (their main source of nutrition)—oh, and entertain the humans, who have taken to snorkeling in their midst.
Lake Nong Harn, Thailand
The yearly sprouting of thousands upon thousands of red lotus flowers completely transforms the surface of Lake Nong Harn into an 8,000-acre vision of buoyant blossoms. This aquatic garden begins to grow in October, just after the rainy season. When it reaches full bloom in December, nearby villagers, who trace the origins of the lake to a tragic love myth, take to boats to enjoy the miraculous scenery. The sea of red lotuses—Talay Bua Daeng, as the locals say—is best viewed during daylight hours before noon, when the flowers are fully opened, revealing their vibrant, pink color (not red, despite the name). The lake, which is located in the province of Udon Thani, 350 miles north of Bangkok, stays rosy until March.
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La Brea Pitch Lake, Trinidad
Some lakes just stick with you, but none more than this one. Made of about 10 million tons of liquid asphalt and spread over a massive 100 acres, La Brea Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of pitch on earth. Its gooey emulsion of water, gas, bitumen, and minerals has been a major source of asphalt throughout the world ever since 1595, when Sir Walter Raleigh happened upon its shores on his quest to find El Dorado. Too bad he wasn't looking for the Fountain of Youth, which is the nickname local villagers had given to the warm, healing pools of sulfur-infused waters that pop up around the lake during rainy season (June to November).
Boiling Lake, Dominica
Water at the center of this 200-foot-wide lakelet stays in a constant rolling boil so hot that no one has been able to take an accurate measurement. But consider that at the shore, this lake already measures between 180 and 197 degrees. Scientists believe the vapor-covered cauldron is really a flooded fumarole, or a vent that leads directly down to volcanic magma. It's not the largest heated lake in the world—that title belongs to the magnificent, comparatively temperate Rotorua lakes in New Zealand—but Boiling Lake is certainly the most forbidding.
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Lake Manicouagan, Canada
Problem: You can't decide if you want to visit a lake or a river. Solution: Lake Manicouagan, in Quebec. Plenty of lakes are round in shape, but this is the only known lake that has been cast into the form of a ring. It was created 200 million years ago when a 3.1-mile-diameter asteroid—the fifth largest ever—crashed into the earth and left behind what appears to be the world's only concentric river. At 1,206 square miles, roughly half the size of Delaware, it's one of the few lakes whose primary island takes up more surface area than actual water, giving you the best of both a lake and a river.
Laguna Colorada, Bolivia
A lake so surreal in color, Salvador Dalí himself might have dreamed it up. More likely, this russet-red lake fueled the imagination of the great mustachioed painter, who once traveled to this far reach of Bolivia, now called Dalí Valley, looking for inspiration. The burgundy color is derived from plankton, red algae, and a trove of other microorganisms that serve as food for the lake's other outstanding feature—the rare puna flamingo, whose presence makes the place seem something like a mash-up of Mars and the Caribbean. It's one of three cold-weather flamingo species that speckle their tropical pink hues over the otherwise forbidding landscape: a 23-square-mile stretch of water beneath titanic maroon mountains, at a windswept 14,000 feet above sea level.
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Mount Erebus, Antarctica
Good luck finding a spot to enjoy this lake, where the air outside can reach a frigid 60 degrees below zero and the stuff inside measures a fiery 1,700 degrees above. One of five lava lakes worldwide, Mount Erebus stands out for its location in Antarctica, the continent that lays claim to having the most ice. The pool of molten rock can be found 12,500 feet above sea level atop Mount Erebus—a volcano that has been consistently erupting since 1972. Before you even think about getting close, remember that it has been known to lob 10-foot-wide lava bombs without notice.
Lake Hillier, Australia
The source of all the world's strawberry milkshakes? Chewing gum? Pepto-Bismol? Nope, just a lake filled with perfectly pink water. It's no trick of light either; the 2,000-foot-long lake stays rosy whether day or night and keeps its hue even if taken away in a bottle. Scientists are baffled by the exact cause, although they have narrowed it down to a few microorganisms and bacteria that live in the lake's salty deposits. Lake Hillier is located on the Recherche Archipelago in Western Australia, and, as if to drive the point home, only a narrow stretch of eucalyptus-tree-covered coastline separates the bubblegum lake from the sapphire blue Southern Ocean.
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Lake Superior, United States
Sometimes, lakes have the same muscle as oceans. Take the Great Lakes, for example. From Minnesota to Illinois to Michigan, the lakes' swollen waves have made them an unexpected haven for surfers, with northern Lake Superior known to be the best place to hang ten. A steady flow of powerful winds blowing over the surface causes the rare freshwater breakers that "range from one to 30 feet, but average between two and six feet," according to Ryan Gerard, president of Third Coast Surf Shop in St. Joseph, MI (of all places). Winter's waves are usually the strongest, but any surf on these lakes is a sight for sore eyes to landlocked Midwesterners.
Medicine Lake, Canada
Within Alberta's Jasper National Park exists a lake so mysterious that you may never find it. The reason? Every winter, its water completely disappears. If you're guessing evaporation, think again: the water drains from the bottom as if it were a gigantic bathtub. Medicine Lake is in fact a four-mile-long, 100-foot-deep flood caused when melting glaciers from the surrounding mountains meet with the Maligne River. Their summer fling happens to be located directly on top of a series of sinkholes that absorb the river, sending it though a 10-mile course of underwater caves (one of the largest inaccessible places on earth), after which it appears above ground again in Maligne Canyon. Even though 4,000 gallons seep out every second, the phenomenon takes weeks. The area's indigenous residents used to call it Magic Lake, and the disappearing act remained a mystery until the 1970s, when biodegradable dye revealed the true nature of its sortilege.
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Lake Natron, Tanzania
Lake Natron adds new meaning to the idea of preserving wildlife; it literally turns animals into stone. Perfectly petrified bats and birds (even doves) have been found washed ashore, as if they've suffered the cursed fate of looking into the eyes of the Greek Gorgon Medusa. The forbidding lake, whose temperatures can reach 140 degrees, developed its rare calcifying powers from toxic ash emitted by surrounding volcanoes. No one is sure exactly how the animals die, but it is thought that the lake's tremendously reflective surface tricks birds into taking a dive...from which they never recover.
Lake McKenzie, Australia
There are no more perfect puddles on earth than Lake McKenzie. To start, the impossibly snow-white sand found along its shores is made of 100 percent pure silica, a naturally occurring mineral often used in beauty products that is said to benefit hair, skin, and nails. But the lake gets more beguiling; this is the crystal-clear water that dreams are made of. Despite being located on Fraser Island, a 75-mile-long sand bar in the Coral Sea, the 370-acre lake is completely fed by freshwater from the clouds. It is one of only 80 lakes in the world that exist entirely above the groundwater table (technically called a perched lake). As a result, its only source is pure rain, which is too acidic to sustain aquatic life—plant, animal, or anything other than you, relaxing.
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Pavilion Lake, Canada
Pavilion Lake takes the nostalgia of a lakeside summer vacation to a back-in-time extreme. On the surface, it looks like any number of British Columbia's pristine alpine pools, but a peek beneath is like peering back to the beginnings of life on earth. The floor of the lake is festooned with a rare type of freshwater coral that mimics some of the first life that ever formed on this planet, no less than 2.5 billion years ago. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have both set up shop on the lake's shores to study these living fossils for clues about how life began on earth and possibly on other planets.
Lake Nyos, Cameroon
In 1986, Lake Nyos caused one of the largest unusual natural disasters in recorded history when it literally blew up without warning. It sent a torrent of water 300 feet into the air, followed by a small tsunami to the lake's shores. Then came a burst of carbon dioxide at 60 miles an hour, creating a roving toxic cloud that suffocated 1,746 people in three days, before dispersing. Scary, but the lake is now safe to see. A buildup of carbon dioxide at the lake's bottom set off the explosion; French and American scientists have since introduced a system of piping to artificially remove the gas.
Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan
The Dead Sea is 10 times saltier than almost any other sea on earth (35 percent compared to 3.5 percent). And because one part in three is salt, you can float on its surface. Its salinity is said to have healing powers for skin and joints, and at 1,486 feet below sea level, it is the lowest place on earth. But did you trivia buffs also know that the Dead Sea is neither a sea nor dead? It is a lake sandwiched between Israel and Jordan, and since the 1930s experts have known that salt-friendly microbes call this place home. For eons it was believed that the lake's only source was the River Jordan, but in 2011, researchers discovered that it is also fed by freshwater springs on the floor.
- 有世界各地的超過300萬個湖泊
- 帕勞的水母湖的居民已經失去了蜇的能力
- 在一個年度活動，紅色的荷花覆蓋8000畝泰湖
- 沒有人知道熱水沸騰湖在多米尼加如何真正得到
（CNN） -想像一下，通過森林的一個遙遠的島嶼行走並在一個明亮，粉紅色的湖絆腳石。或者靜靜地透過荷花盛開，據眼睛可以看到擴大海划船你的船。夢幻？是的，但也是完全可能的，如果你考慮在參觀了世界最奇特的湖泊之一。
由於湖泊大多包含生態系統，他們在你所期望的來自蘇斯博士的想像力方面發展的不可思議的能力。像斑點湖，在加拿大，這被認為是世界上最古怪的自然奇觀之一，從平均前瞻性的高山湖泊每年夏天transmogrifying成巨大的綠色圓點的字段。
有超過3億左右的湖泊世界各地，所以它需要一個相當驚人的技巧脫穎而出。一些引起了我們的注意：做了一個地球上最純淨的護膚成分，並與另一個理想的淡水衝浪六英尺波的湖泊。
自然也可以編造一些非常難以接近湖邊的風景。在坦桑尼亞的泡鹼湖，那裡的水達到140度，嚇呆了蝙蝠和鳥類（甚至是鴿子）被發現衝上岸。
對於大多數的旅客，當然，一湖度假使人想起更多的舒緩，懷舊拉丹的圖像。這是經典的美國經驗，一個夏天的客場之旅。因此，通過各種手段，去拜訪任何數量的在我們國家的偉大的戶外美麗的湖泊。但是，如果你正在尋找一個一個的一類的，看到它，到相信 - 它的經驗，我們建議擱著這些奇特的泳池之一來代替。
水母湖，帕勞
受海洋，水母是一種滋擾游泳，但是泡上與他們在帕勞的水母湖是一個意外的驚喜。這些黃金水母發光的粉紅色和紫色的球體範圍的大小從一分錢到一個足球，並從他們的天敵千年前切斷。由於不需要為自己辯護，他們沒有進化蜇 - 水母只有這樣的已知物種的能力。這些幸福的生物做無非沐浴陽光（營養的主要來源），哦，娛人，誰已經採取措施來浮潛在他們中間。
湖農涵，泰國
為成千上萬的紅色荷花每年的萌芽完全改變湖農涵的表面進入蓬勃盛開的8,000英畝的願景。這種水生花園開始生長在10月，就在雨季結束後。當它達到盛開十二月，附近的村民，誰跟踪湖的起源到一個悲慘的愛情神話，採取小船欣賞神奇的風景。紅蓮花 - 塔萊的Bua Daeng大海，當地人說，是白天最佳瀏覽中午，當花全開了，露出他們充滿活力，粉紅色（不紅，儘管名稱）。該湖，它位於烏隆他尼，曼谷以北350英里的省，保持紅潤，直到三月。
拉布雷亞瀝青湖，特立尼達
一些湖泊只是堅持和你在一起，但沒有比這更。由1000萬噸左右的液體瀝青，並分佈在一個巨大的100畝，拉布雷亞瀝青湖瀝青是地球上最大的天然存款。其糊糊的水，氣，瀝青，礦物質和乳液自從1595年，當沃爾特·羅利爵士偶然發現它的岸對他的追求，尋找黃金國一直在世界各地瀝青的主要來源。太糟糕了，他是不是在尋找青春之泉，這是綽號當地村民曾給予的硫，注入水，彈出繞湖在雨季（六月至十一月）的溫暖，癒合池。
沸騰湖，多米尼加
水在這個200英尺寬的小湖的中心保持在一個恆定的滾動熬這麼熱，沒有人能夠採取一種精確的測量。但考慮到在岸邊，這個湖已經180和197度之間的措施。科學家認為，蒸汽覆蓋的大鍋實在是被水淹沒的噴氣孔或通風口，導致直接下到火山岩漿。這不是最大的熱湖在世界的所有權屬於氣勢磅礴，相對溫和的羅托魯瓦湖在新西蘭，但沸騰湖肯定是最令人生畏。
湖馬尼誇根，加拿大
問題：你不能決定，如果你想訪問一個湖泊或河流。解決方案：湖馬尼誇根，在魁北克。大量的湖泊是圓形的，但是這是已經被澆鑄成一個環的形式已知的唯一的湖泊。它被創造了2億年前，當一個3.1英里直徑的小行星第五大不斷撞向地球，留下這似乎是世界上唯一的同心河。在1,206平方英里，特拉華州的大約一半大小，它是少數幾個湖泊中，其主要的島嶼會佔用更多的表面面積比實際用水的一個，給你最好的兩個湖泊和河流。
紅湖，玻利維亞
一個湖泊的顏色，所以超現實，薩爾瓦多·達利本人所夢寐以求起來。更有可能的是，這赤褐色，紅色的湖助長了極大的鬍子畫家的想像，誰曾經去過這麼遠到達玻利維亞，現在叫達利谷，尋找靈感。勃艮第的顏色從浮游生物，紅藻，並作為食物的湖的另一顯著特點，罕見的普納火烈鳥，它們的存在使這個地方其他微生物的寶庫派生看起來像一個混搭火星和加勒比。這是那去斑他們的熱帶粉紅色的色調在其他禁止風景3寒冷天氣火烈鳥物種之一：水23平方英里的舒展下泰坦尼克栗色山，在海風吹拂14000英尺海平面以上。
伊里布斯山，南極洲
祝你好運找到一個點來享受這個湖，這裡的空氣之外可以達到零下寒冷的60度，裡面的東西衡量一個火熱1,700以上學歷。一個全球5熔岩湖，山伊里布斯突出其在南極洲，即號稱擁有最冰大陸的位置。熔化的岩石水池，可以發現12500英尺海拔在登上伊里布斯 - 火山已持續自1972年爆發。之前，你甚至想親近，記得它一直被稱為吊射10英尺寬的熔岩炸彈恕不另行通知。
希利爾湖，澳大利亞
世界上所有的草莓奶昔的來源？口香糖？鹼式水楊酸，水楊酸鉍？不，只是充滿了完美的粉紅色的湖。這已經不是什麼絕招光任; 2,000英尺長湖保持紅潤無論白天或晚上，並保持其即使在一個瓶子帶走色調。科學家們通過的確切原因百思不得其解，雖然他們已經把範圍縮小到住在湖的咸存款幾個微生物和細菌。湖希利爾位於RECHERCHE群島在西澳大利亞，並且，如果驅動點回家，只有一個狹長的桉樹樹覆蓋的海岸線從寶藍南大洋分隔泡泡糖湖。
蘇必利爾湖，美國
有時候，湖泊具有相同的肌肉為海洋。就拿大湖，例如。從明尼蘇達州到伊利諾斯州到密歇根州，湖泊'腫波令他們意想不到的天堂衝浪者，與北部蘇必利爾湖稱為是向Hang Ten的最佳場所。強大的風拂過表面源源不斷導致罕見的淡水斷路器的“範圍從1到30英尺，但平均2和六英尺之間，”根據瑞安杰拉德，第三海岸衝浪店的聖若瑟，密歇根總裁（所有地方）。冬天的波通常是最強的，但對這些湖泊的任何衝浪是一見傾心的眼痛到內陸中西部。
藥湖，加拿大
在艾伯塔省的賈斯珀國家公園存在一個湖泊那麼神秘，你可能永遠也找不到它。原因？每到冬天，它的水完全消失。如果你猜蒸發，再想想：在水渠從底部就好像它是一個巨大的浴缸。藥湖其實是一個四英里長，100英尺深的洪水造成當從周圍的山冰川融化與瑪琳河見面。他們的夏季一扔恰巧坐落於一系列吸收河裡後，它顯露出地面再次發送它雖然水下洞穴（地球上最大的人跡罕至的地方之一），一個10英里的路線落水洞上方瑪琳峽谷。儘管4000加侖滲出每一秒，這種現象需要數週。該地區的原居民習慣稱之為魔術湖和消失的行為仍然是個謎，直到20世紀70年代，當可生物降解染料顯露出其sortilege的本色。
泡鹼湖，坦尚尼亞
湖泡鹼增加了新的含義，保護野生動物的理念; 它的字面變成動物變成石頭。完全嚇呆了蝙蝠和鳥類（甚至是鴿子）被發現衝上岸，就好像他們已經遭遇了尋找到希臘芡實美杜莎的眼睛被詛咒的命運。禁止在湖中，其溫度可以達到140度，制定了從有毒的火山灰其罕見的鈣化權力周圍的火山噴出。沒有人知道這些動物究竟是如何死的，但它被認為是湖中的巨大反射表面招數鳥而採取俯衝......從他們永遠無法恢復。
麥肯錫湖，澳大利亞
有地球上沒有更完美的水坑比麥肯錫湖。開始，沿著它的海岸發現了不可思議的雪白的沙子是由100％的純矽，一種天然礦物常在美容產品，據說有利於頭髮，皮膚使用，並且指甲。但湖水變得更加誘人; 這是夢想編織而成的水晶般清澈的海水。儘管被位於弗雷澤島，在珊瑚海一個75英里長的沙洲，在370英畝的湖泊完全被從雲層的淡水餵養。這是一個只有80存在完全地下水位（技術上稱為棲湖）以上在世界上的湖泊之一。因此，它的唯一來源是純粹的雨水，這也太酸性，以維持水生生物，植物，動物，或以外的任何其他的你，放鬆。
亭湖，加拿大
亭湖採用的湖畔暑假懷舊一回即時極致。從表面上看，它看起來像任何數量的不列顛哥倫比亞省的原始高山水池，但偷看之下就像是對等回到地球上生命的起源。湖的地板是掛滿了一種罕見的淡水珊瑚，模仿一些曾經形成在這個星球上，沒有低於2.5十億年前的第一生命。美國航空航天局和加拿大航天局都已在店鋪上設立湖岸研究這些活化石，了解有關如何開始生活在地球上，並可能在其他行星的線索。
尼奧斯湖，喀麥隆
1986年，尼奧斯湖造成有史以來最大的不同尋常的自然災害的時候，它確實炸毀了沒有警告之一。它發出的水洪流300英尺到空氣中，隨後小海嘯湖的岸邊。接著傳來了一陣二氧化碳在60英里的時速，創造了巡迴毒雲的窒息1,746人在三天內，分散之前。嚇人，但湖水現在可以安全地看。二氧化碳在湖底堆積掀起了爆炸; 法國和美國科學家自推出管道系統，人為地除去氣體。
死海，以色列/約旦
死海是幾乎比地球上任何其他海域咸10倍（35％相比3.5％）。而由於分之一三是鹽，你能浮於表面。它的含鹽量據說已經癒合的皮膚和關節的權力，並在1486英尺低於海平面，它是地球上最低的地方。但是你的瑣事愛好者也知道死海既不是海，也不死了嗎？這是以色列和約旦之間夾著一個湖，自20世紀30年代專家們知道，鹽友好微生物調用這個地方的家。對於億萬有人認為，湖泊的唯一來源是約旦河，但在2011年，研究人員發現，它也助長了淡水泉在地板上。
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