Sorvagsvatn, the lake above the ocean, Faroe Islands.

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Uncategorized | June 13, 2019

Sorvagsvatn, the lake above the ocean, Faroe Islands.

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In a marvelous optical illusion Lake Sørvágsvatn, the largest in the Faroe Islands, looks to be held hundreds of feet above sea level. When looking at the lake it’s as if the large body of water is straddled high above the ocean, waiting to tip into the lower depths either by earthquake or by a heavy rain that causes its insides to spill out across the shore and fall what must be hundreds of feet into the ocean.

That’s not the case, in actuality the lake is only 98 feet above the ocean. It’s the intense elevation changes in the surrounding hill that make the lake look like it’s sitting so high above the ocean.