10 Most Extreme & Unique Lakes in the World

1. Jellyfish Lake, Palau

Jellyfish Lake is located on one of Palau's Rock Islands, which formed about 12,000 years ago. Millions of jellyfish live in the lake, living through a symbiotic relationship with algae. El Nino events occur about once every decade tend to raise the temperature of the lake and this can cause the death of jellyfish populations.

2. Mono Lake, California, USA

Mono Lake, located near the California-Nevada border east of Yosemite Nat'l Park. Regarded as "hypersaline", this lake has no outlet, and evaporation during the tens of thousands of years the concentrated salts and minerals to very high levels. Nevertheless, life thrives in Mono Lake - as much as 6 trillion live brine shrimp that provide food sources for migratory birds.

3. Diego de la Haya, Costa Rica

Diego de la Haya is a crater lake that fills one of the five main craters 11 260 feet high on Mount Irazú. This lake has been known for its unusual color change from green to gray, pink, or red depending on the type of gases released by volcanic activity inside the mountain.

4. Lake Baikal, Russia

Lake Baikal is the queen of the lake, holding more fresh water than all the North American Great lakes combined! This is also the oldest lake in the world, 25 million years or more, and about 2,500 unique species (such as Nerpa, or Baikal Seal) found in the vicinity of Lake Baikal - and elsewhere. Global warming threatens environmental change in Lake Baikal, and the change is not a good thing for unique plants and animals that live there.

A rocky outcrop stands out from the island in Lake Baikal Olkhon symbolize rugged beauty and isolation of the lake echoed with a stunning 20 percent of the world's fresh water

5. Lake Nyos, Cameroon

Usually the "before and after" photos show an improvement in but it does happen with the Lake Nyos in Cameroon. Lake with greenish-yellow color clear evidence of the deadly 1986 eruption of carbon dioxide that killed more than 1,700 people die from weak. Scientists believe that the underwater rockslide was a delicate balance of pressure storing CO2 dissolved in the lake. Once formed gas bubbles and rises, the pressure is reduced, as appears in the shaken soda bottle caps.

Could August 21, 1986 at Lake Nyos disaster happen again?Probably not - thanks to some autosiphon, "pipe" sunk vertically into the ocean like a soda straw. International project has successfully reduced the level of Lake Nyos CO2 'and also doing the same thing near Lake Monoun, where similar events in 1984 that killed more than 30 people.

6. Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan

The Dead Sea is a lake with some very strange characteristics. As hypersaline Mono Lake and other lakes, the Dead Sea has only one main entrance - River Jordan - the experience minimal rainfall and has no outlet to evaporation. It is also very low: in 1385 feet below sea level, the Dead Sea coast is the lowest in the dry regions of the earth. Step into the Dead Sea itself and you will find the deepest point of 1240 meters below the surface.

Dead Sea water is more than eight times as salty sea water, although salt in the sea as much as 97 percent sodium chloride ...only 30.4 percent from the Dead Sea salt is sodium chloride with potassium chloride remaining medium, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and various bromides. With an average salt concentration of 33.7 percent, the Dead Sea extraordinary dense and thus allows people to float more easily because it had a natural buoyancy.

7. Lake Toba, Indonesia

Located in northern Sumatra in Indonesia, Lake Toba is one of the most calm and quiet that people can visit ... 73 000 years ago, Lake Toba, you see, is a water-filled caldera formed after the largest volcanic eruption occurred in the last 25 million years. After the eruption, the Indian subcontinent was buried under seven inches of ash and the average winter across the planet held a "volcanic" for approximately six years.

Toba super volcano eruptions have serious human consequences, too. It is estimated that the population will be reduced to only a few tens of thousands of course, and the tribes who lived in the east of Sumatra will be migrated to Australia in an attempt to avoid disaster in case of volcanic eruptions.

8. Loch Ness, Scotland, UK

As Scottish Lakes second-deepest loch, Loch Ness is estimated to hold more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Both the depth of Loch's (754 feet) and constant cloudiness (due to the peat in the vicinity of land) have contributed to the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. Some people say that sometimes looked like a Plesiosaur prehistoric floating to the surface of the lake.

9. Aral Sea, Russia

In short, a major scheme to transform the wider region became the center of the cotton growth to see the river that once flowed into the Aral Sea dammed and / or diverted to provide irrigation. Without the water inlet, the sea began to evaporate, and become more salty increasingly polluted with agricultural runoff. The loss of Aral Sea - during one human generation - is a shockingly sad story chronicled by the orbits of satellites and spacecraft.

10. Lake Vostok, Antarctica

Almost 12 500 feet below the ice of Antarctica there is a lake - Lake Vostok. Approximately the size and shape of Lake Ontario, is the most remote lake somehow managed to remain liquid, while actually losing the sun for tens of millions of years.

A Russian expedition has been trying to drill down into Lake Vostok to sample the water and bacteria that may tergandung. Maybe more than just bacteria have managed to survive and the animals that have evolved and adapted to survive in a climate of extreme heat, cold, darkness and pressure. Because of the possibility of Lake Vostok have varied ecosystems and deserve when Antarctica began to freeze more than 40 million years ago.