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The
Great Bitter Lake (
Arabic: البحيرة المرة الكبرى;
transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a salt water lake between the north and south part of the
Suez Canal. It is adjoined by the
Small Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الصغرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra as-Sughra). Together, the Bitter Lakes have a surface area of about 250 km². To the north, the canal also runs through
Lake Manzala and
Lake Timsah.
As the canal has no locks, sea water flows freely into the lake from the
Mediterranean and the
Red Sea, replacing water lost to
evaporation. The lake acts as a buffer for the canal, reducing the effect of tidal currents.
On
February 14,
1945, on the Great Bitter Lake, US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, having flown directly from the Yalta Conference with
Winston Churchill and
Joseph Stalin, met on board the naval cruiser
USS Quincy with Saudi Arabia's
King Abdul Aziz. President Roosevelt's interpreter was the only other English speaker at the meeting. There is no known record of that discussion.
During the
Six-Day War in 1967, the canal was closed, leaving 14 ships trapped in the lake until 1975. These ships became known as the "
Yellow Fleet", because of the desert sands which soon covered their decks. A number of local
postage stamps (or rather, decorative labels, since they'd no postal validity) were created by the crews, which are sought after by collectors.
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