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A BODY of water with a peculiar hydrographic pattern has recently been discovered about 20 km south of the Red Sea port of Elat, on the east coast of the Sinai Peninsula. The closed, elliptical pool, which measures about 80 × 40 m, looked at first like an ordinary lagoon. It is about 30 m from the coast, separated from it by a raised shore containing fossil shells. There is no open connexion with the sea above this barrier.
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POR, F. Solar Lake on the Shores of the Red Sea. Nature 218, 860–861 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218860a0
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