Lake Eyre (Lake Eyre, (officially known as Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre) is located in the desolate and remote interior of South Australia, a saline inland lake divided into two parts: the North Lake Eyre (Lake Eyre North) and the South Lake Eyre (Lake Eyre South). Closer to South Lake Eyre, South Australia's capital, Adelaide, is about 700km by car.
Named after British explorer Edward El (Edward John Eyre), Lake Eyre set out from Adelaide all the way north in 1839 and discovered Lake Eyre..
Lake Eyre is surrounded by deserts and has no access to the sea. It is an inland lake. I don't know when, it has a nickname: "eccentric" lake, the strange temper lies in its water from time to time, elusive. During the rainy season, when the lake is filling (this will only be a short period of time), it can reach 9500 square kilometers, the largest lake in Australia and the 19th largest lake in the world; and when the precipitation is low, it shrinks to only 4000 square kilometres or less; And in the dry season, it dripping water does not exist, even disappear. As a result, Lake Eyre is recorded in the geography book as the largest seasonal lake in the world, with an area of 0-9,500 square kilometers.
Because the average rainfall of Lake Eyre in the seventh year is less than 120mm, but the evaporation is as high as 2500 mm, the difference is nearly 20 times, so, Lake Eyre is almost completely dried up in the dry season, and Lake Eyre appears only four times in 100 years.
Lake Eyre is usually arid or semi-arid. During the dry season, almost every month in a row, Rain Water is evaporated or leaked when he falls into the Lake Eyre basin. At this time, because of its high salinity and become a pink salt lake, people can "step on salt" and walk. As the salinity of the lake changes, the color of the water will change from light red to deep red. If the lake water continues to decrease, the lake bed will crack into a piece of red land, especially at night, like a desert lake bed. It looks like the surface of the moon.
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