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Araldarya

Uzbekistan / Korakalpogiston / Moynoq /
 urochishte (stow), inlet, strait / channel / passage / narrows
In 2003, the South Aral Sea was divided into eastern and western parts (East Sea and West Sea), and six years later the western part is completely dried up, and a year later again filled with melt water from the Amu Darya. The prospects once the Big Aral Sea shore is covered with giant salt crystals resemble alien landscape, estimated by experts extremely skeptical - they estimated that this part of the sea eventually become a salty puddle, and then dissolved and all among the new salt sands of the desert, known as Aralkum .
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Coordinates:   45°46'22"N   59°17'11"E
This article was last modified 10 years ago