Hiller Lake[Pink Lake], Western Australia

Lake Hillier is a saline lake on the sting of Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that frame the Recherche land within the Goldfields-Esperance region, off the south coast of Western Australia. It is particularly notable for its pink color. A long and thin shore splits the Southern Ocean from the lake.

Description

Lake Hillier is about 600 metres (2,000 ft) in length by about 250 metres (820 ft) in breadth.The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense forest of paperbark and eucalyptus trees with a slender strip of sand dunes coated by vegetation separating its northern border from the northern coast of Middle Island. The most notable feature of the lake is its pink colour. The vibrant color is permanent, and does not alter once the water is taken during a instrumentality. The pink colour is thought-about to ensue to the presence of the organism Dunaliella Salina. The Extreme Microbiome Project, parts of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, Metagenomics Research cluster (MGRG), has performed a metagenomic analysis on the lake to find Dunaliella further as Salinibacter ruber, Dechloromonas aromatica and a few species of Archaea.Air is the best way of transportation for viewing the lake.

Forms of life

The only living organisms in Lake Hillier ar microorganisms together with Dunaliella Salina, that causes the salt content in the lake to make a red dye which helps turn out the color, as well as red halophilic bacteria gift within the salt crusts. Despite the unusual hue, the lake show no known adverse effects upon humans. From above, the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the bounds it seems a lot of of a clear pink hue. The shoreline is conjointly coated in salt crust deposits.