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July 8, 2009
Australia's Lake Eyre is the fifth largest terminal lake in the world, with a drainage basin stretching 1.2 million km sq from the Northern Territory to South Australia. The lake is mainly dry except in the wake of a rare, steady rainy season. This was the case in early 2009, when intense rains fell over northern Australia. A total of 17m megalitres of water flowed into the lake - which has no outlet - soaking into the soil and sustaining grasses.
Lake Eyre, Landsat/NASA
By June 10, when this satellite image was captured, the flow of water had slowed: Lake Eyre was as full as it was going to get in 2009
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wonderful post and image - sort of like a prime-evil body carcas un-earthed
Gary, nature as well as man wrecks havoc over the landsacpe, what you see is what exists now (not to excuse the engineers and the business men who daily sell out our resources)
again, thanks for your blog efforts - we come here daily . . .
mal E + Bh