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  2. Lacus Mortis - Wikipedia

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    Lacus Mortis / ˈ l eɪ k ə s ˈ m ɔːr t ɪ s / (Latin mortis, "Lake of Death" [1]) is a hexagonal-shaped plain of basaltic lava flows in the northeastern part of the Moon's near face. It was formed as a floor-fractured crater during the pre-Imbrian epoch, then flooded during the late Imbrian period. [2]

  3. Lake Karachay - Wikipedia

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    Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia.Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).

  4. Gadsar Lake - Wikipedia

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    The Gadsar Lake or Gad Sar(lit. ' lake of fishes '), [1] also called Yem Sar (lit. ' lake of Yama '), is an alpine high altitude oligotrophic lake [2] in the Ganderbal district [3] of Kashmir Division in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It has an elevation of 3,600 metres (11,800 ft), a maximum length of 0.85 km and maximum width of 0.76 km.

  5. Zone of Death (Yellowstone) - Wikipedia

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    The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (130 km 2) area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person may be able to theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.

  6. Stunning satellite images show a rare lake in Death Valley ...

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    The lake is about 6 miles long, 3 miles across and is deep enough to kayak on, McClatchy News reported. Death Valley’s temporary lake is so deep, you can kayak on it — and some have. See it

  7. Lake Manly - Wikipedia

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    Lake Manly was a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California.It forms occasionally in Badwater Basin after heavy rainfall, but at its maximum extent during the so-called "Blackwelder stand," ending approximately 120,000 years before present, the lake covered much of Death Valley with a surface area of 1,600 square kilometres (620 sq mi).

  8. Kayakers paddle in Death Valley lake: 'Extremely uncommon ...

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    Amid torrential downpours, Death Valley National Park's valley floor has received a record 4.9 inches in the past six months, far surpassing the average annual rainfall of about 2 inches per year ...

  9. Places of interest in the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    Shorelines of ancient Lake Manly are preserved in several parts of Death Valley, but nowhere is the record as clear as at Shoreline Butte. Several lakes have occupied Death Valley since the close of the Pleistocene epoch 10,000 years ago, but these younger lakes were quite shallow compared to Lake Manly (See Badwater and Devils Golf Course above).