Glacial Lake Vanishes in Southern Chile
June 21, 2007
This undated combo image released by CONAF, Chile's National Forest Service, shows a 2-hectare lake at the Huemules National Park that mysteriously disappeared in the southernmost region of Magallanes, Chile. Park rangers on a routine monthly patrol discovered in late May, 2007, that the lake had dried up. A group of geologists is being sent to the area in the next few days to try to determine what happened to the lake . (AP Photo/CONAF)
(AP) -- A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.
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