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This is a list of places on land below mean sea level. Places artificially created such as tunnels, mines, basements, and dug holes, or places under water, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc., are not included. Places where seawater and rainwater is pumped away are included.
The lake lies at an elevation of 155 m (509 ft) below sea level, making it the lowest point of Africa. [1] The lake is characterized by two parts. The dry part of the lake, resulting from evaporation of the lake waters, is a white plain dry lake bed on the west/northwest side, which is a large expanse of salt.
Changes in biodiversity, floodings and other climate variations are linked to sea-level, and are reconstructed with different models and observations (e.g., age of oceanic crust). [14] Sea level is affected not only by the volume of the ocean basin, but also by the volume of water in them. Factors that influence the volume of the ocean basins are:
Lake Enriquillo covers an area of 380 km 2 (150 sq mi), [1] and is the lowest point for an island country, falling 46 m (151 ft) below sea level. [5] Its drainage basin includes ten minor river systems. The rivers that rise in the Neiba Mountains to the north (lower center and lower right of the image) are perennial.
sea level 1752 m 5,748 ft Guinea-Bissau: Africa Monte Torin: 266 m 873 ft North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 266 m 873 ft Guyana: America Mount Roraima: 2772 m 9,094 ft [v] North Atlantic Ocean: sea level 2772 m 9,094 ft Haiti: America Pic la Selle: 2680 m 8,793 ft Caribbean Sea: sea level 2680 m 8,793 ft Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Daily monitoring of the Sea of Galilee's water level began in 1969, and the lowest level recorded since then was November 2001, which today constitutes the "black line" of 214.87 meters below sea level (although it is believed that in the first half of the 20th century, the water level had fallen lower than the current black line at times of ...
The polders, now often below sea level, were kept dry with mills pumping water from the polder ditches and canals to the boezem ("bosom"), a system of canals and lakes connecting the different polders and acting as a storage basin until the water could be let out to river or sea, either by a sluice gate at low tide or using further pumps.
The Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) refers to low-lying coastal areas with an elevation below a certain threshold, commonly 10 meters, above mean sea level.Globally, there is a substantial and growing population living in the Low Elevation Coastal Zone, which consists of approximately 2% of the world's land area and around 11% of the global population.