Thursday, April 21, 2011

NASA ISS Image: Lake Frome, Australia

Lake Frome is a large endorheic lake in South Australia, east of the Northern Flinders Ranges.

It is a large, shallow, unvegetated salt pan, 100 km long and 40 km wide, lying mostly below sea level and having a total surface area of 259,615 hectares.

It only rarely fills with brackish water flowing down usually dry creeks in the Northern Flinders Ranges from the west, or exceptional flows down the Strzelecki Creek from the north.

It was named after Edward Charles Frome after his mapping of the area in 1843.

Picture courtesy of NASA.

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