MYSTERIOUS PLACES IN

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1.Bermuda Triangle
2. Stonehenge
3. Lake Natron
4. Vaadhoo Island
5. Tunnel of Love
6. Dead Vlei
7. Jelly Fish Lake
8. Rainbow Mountain
9. Blood Fall
10. Eternal flame fall
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1. Bermuda Triangle

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• It is located in western part of the North Atlantic
Ocean
• Ships, planes, and people are alleged to have
mysteriously vanished
• People guess that, unknown and mysterious forces
account for the unexplained disappearances, such as
– extraterrestrials capturing humans for study
– the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis
– vortices that suck objects into other dimensions
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• Environmental considerations explain those
disappearances as:
– Atlantic tropical storms
– hurricanes
pass through the Bermuda Triangle claimed many ships
• Recently belief:
– Magnetic force

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2. Stonehenge

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• Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous
prehistoric monument
• It was built in several stages:
• The first monument - early henge monument
• Built about 5,000 years ago
• The unique stone circle was erected in the late
Neolithic period about 2500 BC

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3. Lake natron

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• Located in East Africa, Tanzania
• It got its name due to the mixture of salt and minerals,
called natron, which are revealed when the water level
decreases
• Natron is a natural compound comes from volcanic ash
• It consist with sodium bicarbonate and sodium
carbonate
• Lake is fed by some springs that are rich in minerals
• It makes the lake alkaline, reaching a pH of 9 to 10.5

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• Water temperature is 140 F
• Salty enough to poison most animals
• Animals that die in the lake are turned into statues,
through calcification
• Sodium bicarbonate content preserve by making them
look like statues
• No one really knows how these animals die
• On theory, expressed by photographer Nick Brandt, is
that the reflective nature of the surface of the water is
confusing to the birds who crash into the lake 10
• Some fish species can survives but no other species
survives near it
• Water flows in, but doesn’t flow out
• It can only escape by evaporation

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4. Vaadhoo island

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• Located in Maldives island
• It occur due to action of plankton (marine organism)
• It’s natural chemical reaction with a bioluminescence
• They produce blue luminescence that occur as toxins
• The phytoplankton’s blue glow is like a diffence
mechanism
• That are harmful to fish, humans, and other creatures

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• It consider as heaven on Earth
• This island has lots of surprises, specialties which are
revealed at night
• The water in the sea just looks like a reflection in the
mirror reflecting the stars sparkling from above the
sky

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5. Tunnel of love

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• Location: Ukraine
• It is a mysterious green tunnel of trees covering a
section of railway tracks
• It is nearly two-mile stretch of private railway
• It is also called the Green Mile Tunnel
• A train transporting wood to the nearby fiberboard
factory
• Normally it runs three times daily

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• The tunnel is very attractive during the spring and
summer when the trees are at the peak of their
leafiness
• The colorful foliage of fall and snow-covered
branches of winter make for captivating sights as well
• Local legend has it that couples who visit the tunnel
will be granted a wish, provided their intentions are
sincere
• The tunnel has no official protection nor any guardian
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6. Dead vlei

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• Location: Sossusvlei in Namibia
• it is a white clay pan
• Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand terrace
• It is about 300–400m
• The clay pan form after rainfall creating temporary
shallow pools

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• Shallow pool allow to grow camel thorn trees
• The trees die due to lack of water
• Adopted tree species:
– Salsola tree
– Nara tree

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• The remaining skeletons of the trees, which are
believed to have died 600–700 years ago

• Films shot from the dead vlei:

-The Cell
-The Fall
-Ghajini

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7. Jelly fish lake

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• Jellyfish lake is a marine lake located on Eil Malk
island in Palau
• Eil Malk is part of the rock islands
• It is around 12,000 years old
• Millions of golden jellyfish migrate horizontally across
the lake daily

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• Jellyfish lake is stratified into two layers:
– oxygenated upper layer
– anoxic lower layer
• The oxygenated layer extends from the surface to
about 15 m
• The anoxic layer extends from about 15 m below the
surface to the bottom of the lake
• The anoxic layer contains high concentrations of
ammonia and phosphate
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• This layer dangerous for divers
• Moon jellyfish and the golden jellyfish live in the lake
• They are not powerful to cause harm to humans
• Recommended to wear protective cloths that people
with allergies to jellyfish
• Tourists are required to obtain a pass to access Jellyfish
lake

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8. Rainbow Mountain

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• Rainbow mountain is a place near the Ausangate
• Mountains are partly formed of colorful sediments,
which give the site a unique look
• It was discovered for tourism in 2015
• Reason for those colors is ice

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• When it start to melt , the water mixed with minerals
in the ground, turning the earth in to many colors
Purple area - Oxidized limonite 28

Red area - Due to rust mixtures

Yellow area - Iron sulphide
Green area - Chlorite
9. Blood Fall

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• Blood fall is an outflow of an iron oxide tainted
plume of saltwater 30

• It flowing from the tongue of taylor glacier onto the

ice covered surface of west lake bonney
• Situated in victoria land, east Antarctica
• Iron-rich hypersaline water independently emerges
from small cracks in the ice cascades
• The saltwater source is a subglacial pool of unknown
size
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• The antarctica identified first attributed the red color

to red algae
• But later it was proven to be due to iron oxides
10. Eternal flame fall
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• Location: Chestnut Ridge County Park
• It is occur due to natural gas leak
• It provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall
• The fall made out of relatively young shale
• There are many legends regarding the waterfall and
those legends have obviously been disproved
• The falls remains a mystery from a scientific
perspective

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