The warmest lakes in the world. Thermal springs, lakes boiling and hot kunashir island Hot lake

Many people associate lakes with summer vacations, light coolness of the water, and the opportunity to sunbathe on the shore. However, not all lakes are ready to give coolness - some of them have quite even warm, and even hot water. This article is devoted not only to warm, but literally hot water bodies on the planet, and not that a sane person would want to swim in at least one of them.

Which lake is the hottest? It is impossible to answer this question with accuracy, because small-sized reservoirs are very dynamic when heated and cooled. If you take a small and shallow body of water located somewhere on the equator, its temperature during a hot day can rise almost to a boil, and then cool down during a cold night or due to dilution with cool rain streams, or completely evaporate during the summer season.

But in any case, the hottest are volcanic lakes, at the bottom of which there is a volcanic crater or crevice that provides heating of the water. Also famous for their high temperatures are the lakes that arise at the place where hot springs and geysers emerge. Thousands of small lakes and streams of similar origin are found in any rift zone, not excluding the American Yellowstone, a valley that is a crater of a megavolcano. There are hot lakes, lakes and springs in the Caucasus, they can be found all over the world. This article will present only the largest and most interesting hot lakes..

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Fifth place - Lake Wanda

The temperature of this lake is not so remarkable, there are hundreds of hotter lakes. However, it is worth emphasizing the fact that there is a huge difference between the temperature of its waters and the environment. After all, Lake Wanda is located in one of the coldest places on the planet, in Antarctica, right among the ice. And above it there is also an ice shell, reaching a thickness of 4 meters. However, at the bottom of this fresh, salty pond there is water with a temperature of thirty degrees... And scientists still cannot say for sure what the reason for the formation of this heat center is, because there are no hot springs or volcanoes here. The water is clean, but no one lives in it. This is a very mysterious lake, the temperature of which scientists explain by the effect of a thermos.

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Fourth place - coastal lakes of the Sinai Peninsula

The lakes of the Sinai Peninsula are separated from the Red Sea by a very insignificant barrier, this is just a shell rock bridge. There are animals in this lake, but all of them live only in the surface layers of water, no one wants to live at the bottom. And this is not surprising, because at a depth, closer to the bottom, the temperature can rise to 60 degrees and above and it really isn't the best place to live.

Third place - Fumarole lake

There is a system of hot lakes in Kamchatka, and in particular, this is Lake Fumarolnoe, where water has an average temperature of 50, and in some places even above 60 degrees... There are no big mysteries associated with this place, everything is natural here - the lake is located near the Uzon volcano, which heats the water.

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Second place - Boiling Lake

The lake with the characteristic name Boiling is located on the Kuril Islands, on the island of Kunashir. This lake is located in the crater of a volcano with a diameter of about 7 km, it looks like a pool not even with water, but with mud. There are two lakes in the crater at once - Hot and Boiling, and in the center of this system water reaches 80 degrees, although the average temperature of this mud-water mixture is 60 degrees.

A distant and mysterious land - Kamchatka. The land is, moreover, virgin, still little explored and still almost not mastered by man. It is not surprising that there are many mysterious things here, including those that are dangerous to human life.

Deadly Lake Fumarole

There are many volcanoes in Kamchatka, the landscapes around which literally fascinate with their kind of piercing beauty. Lake Fumarolnoye at the foot of the Uzon volcano, which looks more like a huge bowl of hot water floating in cool air, is no exception in this regard.

Indeed, even on the surface of this unique reservoir, the temperature of the liquid is about 50 degrees Celsius, and in the depths the water simply boils. This is the hottest lake in Russia.

The name of the reservoir "Fumarolnoye" can be translated as a source of hot gases, but it would be more correct to say - a source of poisonous gases, since the haze over this lake is not just a harmless steam from hot water, but various gas formations that are fatal to all living things. For this reason, there is not even a path to Lake Fumarolnoe - neither tourists, nor hunters with fishermen, rare visitors to the mysterious reservoir - scientists who study not only the lake itself, but also the influence of the Uzon volcano on it.

The reservoir is relatively large, about 600 meters long and 300 meters wide, its depth reaches 25 meters. In addition, it is so beautiful that it is difficult to take your eyes off, but it is better to admire this lake in photographs or videos, without approaching this natural "trap" - it is deadly!

Death valley

Who does not know the famous Valley of Geysers of Kamchatka (see the video below about it), it was in this place, fantastic in its beauty and contrast, that the wonderful film "Sannikov Land" was filmed in Soviet times. However, few people have heard that not far from this life-affirming valley there is another - the Valley of Death.

The most interesting thing is that until the mid-seventies of the last century, no one even knew about this terrible place. Firstly, Kamchatka is huge and little-studied until now, and the Valley of Death is not that big - about 2 kilometers long and half a kilometer wide. In 1975, a forester V.Kalyaev and a volcanologist V.Leonov, who were studying the Kronotsky nature reserve of this region, accidentally got into this dangerous canyon. It almost cost them their lives. In subsequent years, many expeditions of scientists came here, trying to understand that in this valley it kills animals and birds, including humans, if he turns out to be so careless that he does not leave the lost place as soon as possible.

At first glance, everything seems simple - all living things here are killed by volcanic gases, like carbon monoxide. However, why do animals and birds in the canyon die almost instantly? Then scientists suggested that these gases may contain, say, cyanogen chlorine, which is similar in its action to cyanide poisons. But this theory is bursting at the seams, since the concentration of cyanogen chloride in this case should be very high, cause tearing, but this is not observed. Moreover, cyanide poisons kill all living things, including bacteria, animals and birds poisoned in the Valley of Death do not turn into mummies, but calmly decompose ...

The Valley of Death still remains an unsolved mystery of a distant and fantastic land - Kamchatka. However, there are many other mysteries here, this is like a snuffbox of an old and kind wizard, in which real fabulous wonders are collected ...

The dream where you swim in the lake foreshadows a hidden danger threatening you.

Sailing on the lake in a rowboat - do a crazy act, which you will bitterly repent of.

If you are sailing on a large lake on a large ship, you will have a long journey that will bring you a lot of new impressions.

Water skiing on the lake means striving to speed up the course of events, which is unlikely to succeed.

Fishing in the lake means a long absence of your husband, when you have to pull the whole load of worries around the house alone.

A calm lake in calm weather means a happy marriage and complete understanding between spouses who love each other.

A stormy lake in the raging weather foreshadows obstacles in love.

A clean lake with clear water, through which you can see the coastal bottom, suggests that you will fully fulfill your duty to your parents.

Dirty water in the lake - your plans will be destroyed by the interference of competitors.

The muddy bottom of the lake - you will be drawn into a dubious enterprise, because of which you will lose the location of an influential person.

Clean sandy bottom - do the business you like.

The swampy deserted shore of a dreaming lake means that you are under the influence of false beliefs.

The wooded coast is a sign of affection and friendly disposition.

Drowning in the lake - you will find yourself in a critical situation, which you can only get out of thanks to resourcefulness and cunning.

Seeing a mermaid in the lake is a warning dream: do not succumb to illusions that can lead you to a dead end.

Seeing the famous monster in Loch Ness Lake - you will succeed in what you have been striving for so long and unsuccessfully until now.

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In the south of Kunashir Island there is a caldera of the Golovnin volcano - the southernmost volcano of the Kuril ridge. This is an active volcano, the last eruption of which occurred in historical time - around 1848.

A characteristic feature of this volcano is the absence of a clearly defined cone - once, thousands of years ago, there was a giant explosion comparable to the explosion of Tambor or Krakatau. The cone was destroyed, leaving only a ring of mountains - a caldera. With subsequent eruptions and increased activity, new cones began to grow at the bottom of the caldera and around it, of which there are now 5-6. There are two lakes in the caldera - Hot and Boiling. The first occupies the northern half of the caldera and is essentially not hot (the water temperature in it is typical for the Kunashir lakes; only near its two solfatar fields, its increase is observed). The second lake is de facto the main attraction of Kunashir and the southern Kuriles in general - this is the Boiling Lake, formed in an explosive funnel that arose during an eruption one and a half hundred years ago. At the same time, the central eastern cone grew, rising during this time more than 100 meters above the caldera bottom. The boiling lake, which is noteworthy, does not boil on most of its surface either - it is named so because of the steam that rises above it in wet weather.

The caldera of the Golovnin volcano is unique in the ongoing volcanic activity. A jet of superheated steam and boiling water can suddenly strike from the bottom of the Boiling Lake, which is why swimming in it is life-threatening. One of the solfatar fields of Lake Goryachiy once spewed out a stream of liquid sulfur, which poured into the lake and froze there with a bizarre tongue. The layer of siliceous rock, steamed by other solfatars, turned into a silicic acid gel, better known to us as silica gel. One fine day, the staff of the reserve, descending into the caldera, found a strip of dead vegetation several hundred meters wide and about two kilometers long - a trace of the emission of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide from one of the cones.

Despite all this, the caldera and Boiling Lake are definitely worth a visit. It is only very important to observe special care there, and not to meddle where a person is not supposed to be ...

Boiling lake.

Its name is figurative. The water has a temperature of 50-80 o C and boils only at the foot of the volcanic cone - where the fumaroles are.

The caldera of the Golovnin volcano is a remnant of an ancient explosive eruption. It has a diameter of about 5 km.


Descent to the caldera.

The road to the Boiling One. Yellow vegetation is not grass, but Kuril bamboo. The mountains of the Japanese island of Hokkaido are visible in the background.

The bottom of the caldera. Bamboo thickets Hot lake.

Central eastern volcanic cone. Together with Lake Boiling, it arose during an eruption presumably in 1848.

In wet weather, the lake really seems to be boiling ...

Lake Shore.

There, at the foot of the cone, are fumaroles.

Come closer.

The water in this puddle is boiling.

Bubbles of boiling mud are common.

Rockfalls are frequent from the slope above the lake.

Martian landscape. This channel with white hot water connects the Boiling and Hot lakes.

Farewell look at the lake.

And to the caldera.