Lake Bardawil
Lake Bardawil | |
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Coordinates | 31°11′26″N 33°09′44″E / 31.190483°N 33.162231°E |
Surface area | 59,500 ha (147,000 acres) |
Designated | 9 September 1988 |
Reference no. | 407[1] |
Lake Bardawil (
It is shallow, reaching a depth of about 3 meters, and is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a narrow sandbar and often the waters of the sea find their way there, making it saline.[6][8] It has International Ramsar Convention protected wetlands with a large population of little tern.[9] 30% of the recorded species in the Mediterranean Coast of Sinai are in Lake Bardawil. Six threatened species of flora exist at Lake Bardawil, including Iris mariae.[6]
It has six habitats including "open water, wet salt marshes, saline sand flats and hummock (nebkas), stabilized sand dunes, interdune depressions, and mobile sand dunes."[6]
Other than bird diversity, the area is known for
Some students of the
It may be what Herodotus described as the Serbonian Bog, between Damietta and Mount Casius, in his Histories of c. 430BCE.[14][15]
The Bardawil lagoons are named after the Crusader king Baldwin I.[16] Based in Jerusalem, Baldwin raided Egypt in order to secure his kingdom. He fell ill while fishing in the Nile. While being carried back to Jerusalem in 1118 CE, Baldwin died in El-Arish.[16]
During the
References
- ^ "Lake Bardawil". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ El-Moursy A.. El-Hawagry M.. Abdeldayem M.. Fadl H.. 2001. Insect Diversity in Zaranik Protectorate, Northern Sinai, Egypt (pdf). Egyptian Journal of Natural History. Vol. 3 (2001). pp.62-80. Retrieved on September 09, 2017
- ^ BirdLife International. Important Bird Areas factsheet: Zaranik Protected Area. Retrieved on September 09, 2017
- ^ Tour Egypt. Zaranik Protected Area in Egypt. September 09, 2017
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- ^ "Lake Bardawil on Northern Shores of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt – December 5th, 2010". Earth Snapchat. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11.
- ^ "Lake Bardawil - Marine (2016) Important Bird Areas Factsheet". Birdlife International. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11.
- ^ Nada M.A.. Boura L.., Grimanis K.. Schofield G.. El-Alwany A. M.. Noor N.. Ommeran M. M.. Rabia B.. 2013. Egypt's Bardawil Lake: safe haven or deadly trap for sea turtles in the Mediterranean? Archived 2017-09-08 at the Wayback Machine. MEDASSET, Suez Canal University, Nature Conservation Egypt.
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- ^ M.A. Zahran and A.J. Willis The Vegetation of Egypt, p. 228, at Google Books
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- ISBN 978-0-908988-94-5.