🌊 Lake Timsah

Egypt · Africa · 30.58°N, 32.29°E

Lake Timsah, Arabic for Crocodile Lake, is a lake in Egypt on the Nile Delta. It lies in a basin developed along a fault extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez through the Bitter Lakes region. In 1800, a flood filled the Wadi Tumilat, which caused Timsah's banks to overflow and moved water south into the Bitter Lakes about nine miles (14 km) away. In 1862, the lake was filled with waters from the Red Sea, and became part of the Suez Canal.

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Quick facts

Country	Egypt
Continent / region	Africa
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	30.58°N, 32.29°E · view on map

Lake Timsah in Egypt, in Africa. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More lakes in Egypt

Great Bitter Lake · Serbonian Bog · Lake Moeris · Lake Manzala · Little Bitter Lake · Lake Burullus.

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