10 Strange Lake Facts

10 Strange Lake Facts

1. Wreckage from around 6,000 shipwrecks rests on the bottom of the Great Lakes.

2. In 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation used 600 sonar beams and satellites to scour the waters of Lake Ness in Scotland for evidence of the Loch Ness Monster—but found nothing.

3. It has only been 20 years since the nonnative quagga mussel was accidentally introduced into Lake Michigan, but the bottom of the 100-mile-wide lake is already covered by trillions of these mussels.

4. The capital city of Tenochtitlán, inhabited by the Aztecs in the 1500s, was built on a series of islands in a massive saltwater lake in what is now central Mexico.

5. The South Pole's Don Juan Lake is so salty that it doesn't freeze, even during Antarctica's winters.

6. The water in New Zealand's Frying Pan Lake stays between temperatures of 113 and 131 degrees Fahrenheit (45 to 55 Celsius) year-round.

7. In 1986, CO2 from volcanic vents under the surface of Lake Nyos in Africa formed a cloud that spread into the nearby village of Nyos, killing all but six residents—roughly 1,700 people.

8. By the 1990s, Russia's Lake Karachay had been so heavily polluted by nuclear waste that an hour's worth of exposure to it could kill a human.

9. The waters of Greece's Melissani Lake are so clear that boats on its surface sometimes look as though they are floating in the air.

10. Because its high levels of brine and methane kill almost any lifeform that ventures into it, an underwater lake 3,300 feet below the Gulf of Mexico has been christened by scientists the “Hot Tub of Despair."

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