Lake Cerknica (Cerknisko jezero)
About Lake Cerknica (Cerknisko jezero)
Lake Cerknica is an intermittent lake in the southern part of the Cerknica Polje, a karst polje in Inner Carniola, a region in southwestern Slovenia.
On the show · 3 mentions total
Where does it go? It's a lake called Lake Kirknica and when it exists it has a surface area of 30km² so it's not volume, it's surface area that makes it the biggest lake in Slovenia. There are two terms here, Polje, which is a field above a cast and a cast is basically a landscape that's got loads of kind of soft rock in it and it means that water is a road of the soft rock in various places and created holes in it like a Swiss cheese filled up in rainy season and then it gets sucked through these swallow holes or these sink holes when it gets dry and the water stops coming through and it vanishes.
from 64: No Such Thing As An Honest Saiga, 2015-06-05 at 00:11:05 · read transcript
Other times Lake Cerknica (Cerknisko jezero) came up
Yes, which I love, by the way. I highly recommend as a holiday destination. Lake Kirknica, yes, it vanishes and then reappears, doesn't it? I think it's got a special name, that kind of lake. It's temporary.
Little Fish: I've Booked Us In A Lovely Toilet, 2026-06-14 · listen
Again, I think you're giving them a bad name. I've got a fact here for Sasha Goldberg. This is that Slovenia's largest lake, Lake Kirknica, disappears every year. There you go, Sasha. Is this one of your facts?
Little Fish: I've Booked Us In A Lovely Toilet, 2026-06-14 · listen
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64: No Such Thing As An Honest Saiga put 2 places on the map.
- Lake Cerknica · Slovenia
Coordinates: 45.7500, 14.3700