Whats the saltiest body of water

Q: What is the saltiest lake or sea?

The most saline water body is Gaetale Pond, located in Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, with a percentage of salt by weight of 43.3%, compared to 40.2% of Don Juan Pond lake in Antarctica, 23.1% in the Dead Sea and an average of 3.38% in the worlds oceans as a whole.

Q: What body of water is saltier than the ocean?

Don Juan Pond isnt just an awesomely assonant name for a little pool of water; its also the name of one of the most interesting ponds out there for astrobiologists. At 40 percent salinity, the pond is the saltiest body of water on the planet. Its 18 times saltier than the ocean.

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Don Juan Pond is the saltiest body of water in the world. It may be small, but of all the world's lakes that are extremely high in their salt content, Don Juan Pond in Antarctica is the saltiest. With more than 40% salinity, the lake never freezes even at temperatures as low as -22 degrees F.

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Hidden away in a dry Antarctic valley, Don Juan Pond is known as the saltiest body of water on planet Earth. It is a small and very shallow hyper-saline lake in the west end of Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is wedged between the Asgard Range to the south and the Dais Range to the north. With a salinity level of over 40%, Don Juan Pond is the saltiest known body of water on Earth.

It is claimed that Don Juan Pond has over 18 times the ocean's salinity and 1.3 times that of the Dead Sea. The fact that it is the only Antarctic hype-saline lake of several that almost never freezes, is an indication of its top rank in salinity among the world's lakes.

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This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh.

Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as an approximate indicator.

Salinity, g/kg (‰)	Name	Type	Region or countries	Refs
433	Gaet'ale Pond	salt lake	Ethiopia	[1][2]
400	Lake Retba	salt lake	Senegal	[citation needed]
350	Lake Vanda	salt lake	Antarctica	[citation needed]
350	Garabogazköl	lagoon	Turkmenistan	[3]
348	Lake Assal	salt lake	Djibouti	[4]
338	Don Juan Pond	salt lake	Antarctica	[5]
337	Dead Sea	salt lake	Israel, Jordan, West Bank	[6]
324	Lake Tuz (Tuz Gölü)	salt lake	Turkey	[7]
317	Great Salt Lake, North Arm	salt lake	Great Basin, Utah, United States	[8]
300	Lake Baskunchak	salt lake	Astrakhan Oblast, Russia	[9]
300	Salty Lake (Lacu Sărat)	salt lake	Brăila, Romania	[10][11]
85–280	Lake Urmia	salt lake	Iran	[12]
180	Little Manitou Lake	salt lake	Canada	[13]
153	Lake Pikrolimni	salt lake	Greece	[14]
142	Great Salt Lake, South Arm	salt lake	Great Basin, Utah, United States	[8]
120	Lake Abert	salt lake	Great Basin, Oregon, United States	[15]
95	Techirghiol Lake	salt lake	Romania	[16]
88	Mono Lake	salt lake	Great Basin, California, United States	[17] (as of 2015)
66	Hamelin Pool	lagoon	Australia	[18]
44	Salton Sea	salt lake	Great Basin, California, United States	[19]
41–45	Great Bitter Lake	salt lake	Egypt	[20]
38	Mediterranean Sea	mediterranean sea	Southern Europe, Levant, North Africa	[21]
36–41	Red Sea	mediterranean sea	Egypt, Sudan, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa	[22]
30–40	Lake Natron	salt lake	Tanzania	[23]
34–36	World Ocean	ocean	Worldwide	[24]
35+	Lake Eyre	Endorheic lake	Australia	[25][n 1]
34.06 ± 0.543	Lough Hyne	marine lake	Republic of Ireland	[26]
28–32	Beaufort Sea	marginal sea	North of Alaska and Canada	[27]
22	Sea of Marmara	mediterranean sea	Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian peninsula	[28]
0.13–31.73	Chilika Lake	lagoon	India	[29]
13–23	Black Sea	mediterranean sea	Between Europe and Asia - Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Caucasus	[30]
23	Lake Van	salt lake	Turkey	[31]
14	Qinghai Lake	salt lake	China	[32]
12.5	Caspian Sea	salt lake	Eastern Europe/ Western Asia	[33]
11.4	Sarygamysh Lake	salt lake	Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan	[34]
10-12	Sea of Azov	mediterranean sea	Ukraine, Russia	[35][36]
8-10	Baltic Sea	marginal sea	Northern Europe	[37][n 2]
5.9	Issyk Kul	salt lake	Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia	[38][n 3]

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Notes[edit]

^ When full, Lake Eyre salinity is the same as oceans; due to a 45cm thick salt layer when dry, it rises as water evaporates.
^ Some bays have considerably lower salinity.
^ Deeper water areas of lake Issyk Kul have higher salinity

Bibliography[edit]

Johanna Laybourn-Parry; Jemma L. Wadham (2014). Antarctic Lakes. Oxford University Press. pp. 92–94. ISBN 978-0-19-967049-9.

What is the saltiest lake or sea?

The most saline water body is Gaet'ale Pond, located in Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, with a percentage of salt by weight of 43.3%, compared to 40.2% of Don Juan Pond lake in Antarctica, 23.1% in the Dead Sea and an average of 3.38% in the world's oceans as a whole.

What body of water is saltier than the ocean?

Don Juan Pond isn't just an awesomely assonant name for a little pool of water; it's also the name of one of the most interesting ponds out there for astrobiologists. At 40 percent salinity, the pond is the saltiest body of water on the planet. It's 18 times saltier than the ocean.