Important Location On India

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Lonar Lake

• Lonar Lake is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument, located in

Maharashtra.
• Lonar Lake was created by an asteroid collision with earth impact
during the Pleistocene Epoch. It is one of the four known, hyper-
velocity, impact craters in basaltic rock anywhere on Earth.
• The other three basaltic impact structures are in southern Brazil.
 National Chambal Sanctuary
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) declared
the National Chambal Sanctuary (National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary)
in Madhya Pradesh as eco-sensitive zone (ESZ).
National Chambal Sanctuary, also known as National Chambal Gharial
Sanctuary, was declared a national sanctuary in 1979 and sits across three
states: Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
It was formed to protect the Chambal river eco-system. It is home to naturally
living population of 75% of gharial.

It’s for the protection of the Critically Endangered gharial, the red-crowned roof
turtle and the Endangered Ganges river dolphin.
 Pong Dam Lake Wild Life sanctuary

• It is a feeding station for vultures in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh.

• It has been set up as a part of state wildlife wing’s ongoing project to
conserve the big scavenging bird in natural habitat, where the ‘Vulture
Restaurant’ provides deskinned carcasses to vultures.
• There are seven species of vultures in the new world and 16 species in the
old world that includes Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, etc. Out of 16 in the
old world, eight species (including Himalayan Griffon, Eurasian Griffon) have
been reported in Kangra district also.
 Wetlands in india

What we need to remember-

• Total (37), largest, smallest
• New addition(10)
• Freshwater or salty?
• Natural and artificial ?
• State/s located in ?
• Inland or on shore ?
• Distance /crossing tropic of cancer
 Ramsar Wetlands in India (natural)

1.Ashtamudi wetland, kerala- natural backwater

2.Beas conservation reserve , punjab (LATEST ADDITION)-
host only known population of Indus River dolphin , natural
fresh water lake
3.Bhitarkanika Mangroves, odisha- mangroves
4.Chandra taal, in Rahul and spiti district of Himachal Pradesh-
high altitude natural fresh water lake
5.Chilika Lake, Odisha -brackish back water lagoon, largest
coastal lagoon at the mouth of Daya river
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6. Deeper beel, Assam- fresh water lake

7. Hokera wetland, J&K- natural perennial wetland contiguous to
the Jhelum basin
8. Keshopur-Miani Community Reserve, Punjab (LATEST
ADDITION)- mosaic of natural marshes, aquaculture ponds and
agricultural wetlands maintained by the annual rainfall runoff-
natural wetland
9. Kolluru lake, Andhra Pradesh- natural eutrophic lake, situated
between basins of the Godavari and the Krishna
10. Loktak Lake, Manipur- largest natural freshwater lake, famous
for Phumdis; Keibul Lamja, only floating national park; natural
habitat of endangered Sangai or Manipur brow antlered deer
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11.Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, Gujarat- natural freshwater

lake; lifeline of endangered Indian Wild Ass
12.Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)-
shallow marshland feed from Monsoon and Sarda Canal
supplies
13.Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)-
permanent fresh water
14.Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary, Tamil Nadu-
natural wetland
15.Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh- natural freshwater
wetland
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16.Rudrasagar Lake, Tripura- natural sedimentation reservoirs

17.Saman Bird Sanctuary, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- seasonal natural
oxbow lake
18.Samaspur Bird Sanctuary, UP-(LATEST ADDITION) natural wetland
19.Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan- largest natural inland salt lake
20.Sandi Wetland, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- freshwater natural marsh
21.Sarsai Nawar Jheel, UP(LATEST ADDITION)- natural
permanent freshwater wetland
22.Sasthamkotta Lake, Kerala- natural fresh water lake
23.Sundarbans wetland, West Bengal- natural mangrove
wetland
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24.Surinsar Mansar Lake, J&K- natural freshwater lake

25.Tsomoriri, J&K- natural fresh to brackish water lake, has no
aquatic vegetation
26.Upper Ganga River (Brijghat to Narora Stretch), UP- natural
freshwater wetland
27.Vembanand-Kol wetland, Kerala- longest lake of india,second
largest wetland after Sundarban, backwater lake, below sea level,
AKA Punnamada Lake and Kochi Lake
28.Wular Lake, J&K- largest natural freshwater lake ,formed due to
tectonic activities, fed by Jhelum river
 Ramsar Wetlands in india (Man made)

29.Bhoj wetland, MP- manmade reservoir

30.East kilkatawelands, West Bengal- complex of natural
and human-made wetland, salt marshes and salt
meadows
31.Harike wetland, Punjab - man made wetland at the
confluence of Beas and Satlej
32. kanjli wetland , punjab- man made wetland
33.Keoladeo national park, Rajasthan-A complex of ten
artificial, seasonal lagoons- man made wetland
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34.Nandur Madhmeshwar, Maharastra(LATEST ADDITION)

- man made wetland at the confluence of Godavari and
Kadwa
35.Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary, Punjab (LATEST ADDITION)-
artificial lake on river Satluj.
36.Pond Dam Lake, Himachal Pradesh- man made
reservoir on Beas river
37.Ropar wetland, punjab- man made wetland fron Sutlej
Water
Ramsar Wetlands of India
Sir Creek
Sir Creek is a 96-km strip of water disputed between India and
Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch marshlands.

• Originally named Ban Ganga, Sir Creek is named after a British

representative.

• The Creek opens up in the Arabian Sea and roughly divides the
Kutch region of Gujarat from the Sindh Province of Pakistan