The strange lake all year round boiled and fumed

Looking from a distance from this lake, it was like a pot of boiling water that someone would fire around the year.

Lake Frying Pan , also known as "Fry Pan" Lake is located in the Waimangu Valley (New Zealand) which is one of the largest hot water lakes in the world to date. This hot lake has a name like that because the water temperature here is always around 50-60 degrees C.

Smoke rose up on the lake surface.

Looking at Lake Frying Pan through the photos, many people will think the white smoke hovering over the lake is mist - formed by cold air combined with high temperature water, however, in fact, thick smoke This is steam in the lake, which contains carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gas.

Looking through the picture, many people will think this smoke is mist.

This is considered the largest boiling lake in the world.

Talking about Frying Pan's history, one had to return to 1886, when Mount Tarawera erupted and created many craters around its feet.

Since the arrival of Europeans and discovering New Zealand, this is considered the largest volcanic eruption in this country. Mount Tarawera "turned" , its hot lava spread to the Waimangu valley where it sat and erased many of New Zealand's precious lands, including the world-famous silica tower - Pink and White Terraces. But in return, it brought to this valley the "children" that characterized its hydrothermal and geothermal.

Ho Frying Pan covers an area of ​​38,000 square meters.

The new craters, during the 15 years following the volcanic eruption, were "bathed" in the rain, then formed hot springs, including the world's largest hot spring - Frying Pan.

But Frying Pan that year is not the current Frying Pan. In 1917, another giant volcanic eruption erupted, affecting the terrain around the lake to help it reach its present size and shape.

Frying Pan is the "home" of many species of creatures, but mostly thermophiles.

Ho Frying Pan covers an area of ​​38,000 square meters. Although wide, the water in the lake is relatively shallow, popular at 6m, the deepest point is only 7.6m. Located around the lake mouth are colorful silica beaches and minerals.

Frying Pan is the "home" of many species of creatures, but mostly thermophilic species and capable of growing at high temperatures. With high temperatures, 50-60 degrees C, the level of human body temperature cannot be tolerated, but that does not mean that people cannot conquer. In the 1970s, Ron Keam, a researcher at the University of Auckland, conducted a comprehensive survey of Lake Frying Pan on a specially designed wooden boat capable of adapting to high temperatures and The chemical in the lake is called the Maji Moto.