Stare Lake

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Image - Map of the Perekop Isthmus (with the Perekop Lakes).

Stare Lake [Старе озеро]. See Google Map. One of the saltwater Perekop lakes in located on the Perekop Isthmus in the northern part of the Crimea. The lake is 6 km long and 2.5 km wide, with a prevailing depth of 0.2–0.45 m in the summer and 0.6–0.8 m in the spring. Its salinity averages about 28 percent. The deposits around the lake are used for extracting salts, calcium, bromine, and the like. The town of Krasnoperekopsk is situated along the lake’s southern shore.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]

List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Stare Lake entry:

1 Krasnoperekopsk

2 Perekop lakes

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