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* Sea Cliff on Long Island has a pond named Salty O Donnell named after the saltiest sea cliff volunteer fire fighter Brian O'Donnell jumped In and all the salt he had turned the pony to 100% salt

==References==
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Revision as of 21:03, 12 December 2012

This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.5‰

Salinity Name Type Region or Countries Refs
400‰ Don Juan Pond Salt lake Antarctica
350‰ Garabogazköl Salt lake  Turkmenistan
348‰ Lake Assal Salt lake  Djibouti
337‰ Dead Sea Salt lake  Jordan,  Israel [1]
50-270‰ Great Salt Lake Salt lake  United States [2]
50-99‰ Lake Mono Salt lake  United States [3]
44‰ Salton Sea Salt lake  United States
35‰ Atlantic Ocean Ocean [4]
23‰ Baltic Sea Mediterranean Sea  Europe [5]
0.13–31.73‰ Chilika Lake Lagoon  India [6]
13–23‰ Black Sea Inland sea  Bulgaria,  Romania,  Ukraine
 Russia,  Georgia,  Turkey		 [7]
12.5‰ Caspian Sea Lake  Azerbaijan,  Iran,  Kazakhstan
 Russia,  Turkmenistan		 [8]
85‰ Lake Urmia Salt lake  Iran [9]
  • Sea Cliff on Long Island has a pond named Salty O Donnell named after the saltiest sea cliff volunteer fire fighter Brian O'Donnell jumped In and all the salt he had turned the pony to 100% salt

References

  1. ^ Goetz, P.W. (ed.) The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th ed.). Vol. 3, p. 937. Chicago, 1986
  2. ^ Can I float in Great Salt lake?. Utah Geological Survey.
  3. ^ Mono Lake FAQ
  4. ^ Britannica.com - Salinity & Temperature of Atlantic Ocean
  5. ^ Long Term Temperature & Salinity Records from the Baltic Sea Transition Zone
  6. ^ Indian Journal of Marine Sciences - Variation of Water Quality of Chilika Lake, Orissa
  7. ^ Black Sea - Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  8. ^ Lake Basin Management Initiative - The Caspian Sea (2004)
  9. ^ Lake Urmia. 2012. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 28 August, 2012, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619901/Lake-Urmia
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