Aral Sea Abandoned Ships

The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. The name roughly translates from Mongolic and Turkic languages to …
The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan. The name roughly translates from Mongolic and Turkic languages to "Sea of Islands", a reference to the large number of islands that once dotted its waters. The Aral Sea drainage basin encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
  • Location: Central Asia · (Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan)
  • Primary inflows: North: Syr Darya · South: Groundwater only · Previously: Amu Darya
  • Catchment area: 1,549,000 km² (598,100 sq mi)
  • Surface area: 68,000 km² (26,300 sq mi) (1960, one lake) · 28,687 km² (11,076 sq mi) (1998, two lakes) · 17,160 km² (6,626 sq mi) (2004, four lakes) · North: 3,300 km² (1,270 sq mi) (2008) · South: 3,500 km² (1,350 sq mi) (2005)
  • Average depth: North: 8.7 m (29 ft) (2014) · South: 14–15 m (46–49 ft) (2005)
  • Max. depth: North: · 42 m (138 ft) (2008) · 30 m (98 ft) (2003) · South: 37–40 m (121–131 ft) (2005) · 102 m (335 ft) (1989)
  • Water volume: North: 21.4 km³ (5 cu mi) (2024)

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Data from: en.wikipedia.org