Lake Cerknica (Cerknisko jezero)

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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 ⏱ 00:11:05