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Lake Tyrrell Research Paper

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Imagine being trapped in a hypersaline environment. The water is undrinkable, there is little food. You struggle to find any resources. The sun is beating down on you and the sweat is pouring down your face. You come to the lake but don’t realize that you can’t drink the water. You come up and take a sip through your cupped hands. It is very salty and you suddenly realize you will need to boil it. This would be Lake Tyrrell. Lake Tyrrell is a very unique salt lake that is located in Victoria, Australia. It is very dry most of the year and you can see all the salt in the lake. When this lake evaporates it leaves a lot of salt with it. When this happens it is commercially extracted by Cheetham Salt works that is located at the Northern end of the lake. Over 100,000 tons of salt is extracted each year. The first salt recorded salt harvest was 1896. The salt is used for various things throughout the years. …show more content…

It houses reptiles, kangaroos, white-faced chats, and island gullery. Small islands are also used as a breeding ground for seagulls. Other animals come here also The Saltbush and Samphire around the lagoon support a lot of wildlife. The Lunette contains significant Aboriginal relics. It is not really a hard environment for humans to live on Lake Tyrrell, mostly because it is a large tourist attraction so not many people live there. However, it is not easy for organisms to live there. A reason for this is because high amounts of salt reduces water greatly. Therefore it makes it hard for animals to get water. Another reason it’s hard is because of the sun. There is very high amounts of UV radiation there. UV radiation destroys DNA. But some organisms can prevent this from happening. This is also why why the lake has its pink

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