7/31/2023 0 Comments The land of blood and ice![]() Five million years ago, sea levels rose, flooding East Antarctica and forming a salty lake. ![]() If you're squeamish, don't worry-it's not blood that lends Blood Falls its unique crimson hue. And it's not just the idea of a waterfall in the frozen world of Antarctica that is strange: the waterfall is bright red, like blood running from a cut in the glacier. One of the world's most extreme deserts might be the last place one would expect to find a waterfall, but in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley, a five-story fall pours slowly out of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Peter Rejcek, National Science Foundation Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney.
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