Pink lake Hillier

Pink lake Hillier
Mysterious, surrounded by many legends, Lake Hillier stretched serenely and majestically on the Australian coast. A miracle lake on the Middle Island, is a part of the archipelago, and consists of hundreds of small islands. They stretch for miles along the southern coast of Australia. The entire island Hillier is a unique conservation area. The width of the lake is just 600 meters away and it has brilliant pink color of surface. Thanks to the Lake Hillier, wooded median island gets a lot of unusual colors. Pink water surrounded on all sides by bright green gum trees, separated from the blue hue of the ocean only by white sand strip.

In 1950, a group of scientists visited the island. They expected to find in a salt water lake some algae, imparting pinkish color to other Australian waters. In fact, the released from algae red pigment gives the water such a pinkish hue. However, to the great surprise of scientists, the analysis of lake water samples did not reveal any traces of algae. Later, appeared a version that pink water is attached by microorganisms – Archaea. However, the question still remains open.

In the history Lake Hillier was first mentioned in 1802, when English navigator Matthew Flinders traveled the Mid-Island in a route to Sydney. Later, from 1920 to 1940, whalers and sealers visited the island, and in the early twentieth century, from the lake began to extract salt. However, after a few years, salt production was stopped, and since then the silence of the Middle Island with its mysterious lake has remained untouched.

Pink lake Hillier

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