10-acre Patagonia lake disappears
From Times Wire Reports
A lake in southern Chile has mysteriously disappeared.
The lake in the Magallanes region in Patagonia had a surface area of about 10 acres and was fed mostly by water from melting glaciers.
Juan Jose Romero, regional director of Chile’s National Forestry Corp., said, “The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lakebed and an enormous fissure.”
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