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Filling up Lake Carnegie
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Filling up Lake Carnegie

Thanks to a wet summer, water levels rose in this ephemeral lake in Western Australia.

Published Apr 25, 2020

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Lake Eyre Filling Peaks
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Lake Eyre Filling Peaks

By mid-June 2009, the rare filling of this lake in Australia’s Simpson Desert appeared to have reached its peak.

Published Jun 21, 2009

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A Surge of Blue and Green in Australia
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A Surge of Blue and Green in Australia

Big rain events in Queensland can alter the landscape for months as water—and then a carpet of vegetation—moves toward Lake Eyre.

Published Apr 3, 2019

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A Pulse of Green in Australia
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A Pulse of Green in Australia

Flood water from northern Queensland drained toward a large basin in Australia’s interior—painting the desert landscape green.

Published May 4, 2018

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Rare Filling of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
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Rare Filling of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre

Floodwaters have worked their way through a series of parched channels, watering holes, and lagoons to start filling the iconic Australian lake.

Published May 28, 2019

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Lake Dundas, Western Australia
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Lake Dundas, Western Australia

Western Australia’s Lake Dundas is a salt lake in a dry environment, but it once sat along a drainage channel with headwaters in Antarctica.

Published Jan 17, 2012

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Rare Refill of Lake Eyre, Australia’s Simpson Desert
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Rare Refill of Lake Eyre, Australia’s Simpson Desert

Muddy brown water spreads into Australia's Lake Eyre through a triangular delta in this natural-color Landsat image from May 9, 2009. The water transformed the dry basin into a vast inland sea where flocks of birds gathered to breed.

Published May 24, 2009

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Lake Hinds, Western Australia
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Lake Hinds, Western Australia

Fresh rains partly fill a normally dry lake bed near Perth.

Published Apr 18, 2016

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O Christmas Tree! from Space
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O Christmas Tree! from Space

Shaped like an evergreen conifer, Lake Dukan is the largest lake in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Published Dec 25, 2018

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Lake Fucine, Italy
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Lake Fucine, Italy

The light tan oval in this image is the floor of a lake in central Italy that has been drained by a tunnel dug through the surrounding hills. Numerous rectangular fields occupy the former lake bottom—now one of the most fertile regions of Italy. The area is still referred to as “Fucine Lake,” even though the lake has been dry for nearly 150 years.

Published Mar 17, 2008

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