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The Aral Sea (/ ˈærəl /) [ 4 ][ a ] was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s. It was in the Aktobe and Kyzylorda regions of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan autonomous region of Uzbekistan.
Amu Darya. Coordinates: 44°06′30″N 59°40′52″E. Amu Darya. Oxus, Wehrōd, Amu River. Looking at the Amu Darya from Turkmenistan. Map of area around the Aral Sea. Aral Sea boundaries are c. 2008. The Amu Darya drainage basin is in orange, and the Syr Darya basin in yellow. Etymology.
Vozrozhdeniya was once a small island; it was only 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) in the nineteenth century. [2] However, in the 1960s, the island began to grow in size as the Aral Sea began drying up as the Soviet Union dammed its feeder rivers for agricultural projects. [3] The shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time, and ...
The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan ...
The Syr Darya drainage basin is in yellow, and the Amu Darya basin in orange. The Syr Darya / ˌsɪər ˈdɑːrjə / SEER-DAR-yə, [a][b] historically known as the Jaxartes (/ dʒækˈsɑːrtiːz / jak-SAR-teez, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian, literally means Syr Sea or Syr River.
The North Aral Sea (Kazakh: Soltüstık Aral teñızı) is the portion of the former Aral Sea that is fed by the Syr Darya River. It split from the South Aral Sea in 1987–1988 [2] as water levels dropped due to river diversion for agriculture. In 1925 a large site containing numerous fossils of the Oligocene was discovered near the village of ...
Aralkum Desert. The Aralkum Desert (Uzbek: Orolqum choʻli, Оролқум чўли, Kazakh: Аралқұм шөлі, Russian: Пустыня Аралкум) is a desert that has appeared since 1960 on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea. [1] It lies to the south and east of what remains of the Eastern Basin Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and ...
The Memorial above the former shore of the Aral Sea, now dried. Once a bustling fishing community and Uzbekistan's only port city with tens of thousands of residents, Moynaq is now dozens of kilometers from the rapidly receding shoreline of the Aral Sea. Fishing had always been part of the economy of the region, and Moynaq became a center of ...