MOTHER NATURE June 2017 | Page 15

2017 15 LAKES OF HEART Nature has a heart, being exhibited in forms of heart shaped lakes. There are nearly 78 heart shaped lakes in the world. We can also find some man made lakes. The largest man made lake Hussain Sagar is in Hyderabad, Telangana India. Let us view some of the lakes here. Shimshal Lake – Pakistan Gaislacher See – Austria Aral Sea – Kazakhstan Aral Sea has the shape of a heart in the northern tip of the western half of the Large Aral Sea. Unfortunately, its beautiful shape is due to the shrinking of the sea, which is considered “one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters Heart Lake – Canada Heart-Shaped Lake – Brazil The Coeur de Voh – New Caledonia Here is an aerial view of a natural lake shaped like a heart that is fed by a spring in the Amazon River basin near Manaus