Great Bitter Lake

The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الكبرى; transliterated: al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā) is a large saltwater lake in Egypt that is part of the Suez Canal. Before the canal was built in 1869, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin.Madl, Pierre (1999). Essay about the phenomenon of Lessepsian Migration , Colloquial Meeting of Marine Biology I, Salzburg, April 1999 (revised in Nov. 2001). References are made to the Great Bitter Lake in the ancient Pyramid Texts. The ca…