“There was never any possibility of bending a wing or turning a head to make a better pose - they were like rock,” he said, “so we took them and placed them on branches and rocks just as we found them, always with a view to imagining it as a portrait in death. The entire fish eagle was the most surprising find,” Brandt told The Huffington Post. “I thought they were extraordinary – every last tiny detail perfectly preserved down to the tip of a bat’s tongue, the minute hairs on his face. This is the world’s fourth-largest structure. The Empire State Building has a height of 443 metres. So, just to give you an idea, here’s a contrast. No one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.” It contains magmatic limestone that has been created deep inside the Earth, poured out in runny lava flows, and blasted into the air to form ash clouds 10 miles high. Animals exposed to the water die, gradually stiffen into ghostly statues.īrandt told New Scientist, “I couldn’t help but photograph them. “The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds.” writes Brandt. However, you should not imagine the classic blue lake, but rather a basin of reddish water with deep white streaks typical color of those lakes rich in sodium and often subject to evaporation cycles.
Enter these waters at your own risk.īrandt visited the lake while working in Africa and discovered calcified corpses of bats and birds scattered along the shoreline. The lake that turns animals into stone is called Lake Natron and is located in northern Tanzania, in the African Rift Valley at about 600m altitude. The steaming hot lake is colored bright red by bacteria. Water temperatures can reach 140 ☏ and alkalinity hovers around pH 10, similar to ammonia. Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran is the largest lake in the Middle East, and the third largest saltwater lake on earth.Īnd the Dead Sea, bordered by Jordan, Israel and Palestine, holds the title as the deepest of the world’s salty seas.īut those majestic waters all step aside as, just in time for Halloween, Lake Natron steps onto the podium as the world’s most frightening: The Caspian Sea, bordered by Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, is both the world’s largest lake and the largest saltwater lake. It’s hot, chalky waters can turn birds and land animals into calcified statues, spookily captured by photographer Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land. The Middle East boasts some of the world’s saltiest waterbodies, but none approach the horror of Lake Natron in Tanzania, one of the harshest environments on the planet.
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