Timsahsee
| Timsahsee | ||
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| Geographical location | Al-Ismaʿiliyya Governorate , Egypt | |
| Tributaries | Ismailia Canal , Wadi Tumilat , Suez Canal | |
| Drain | Suez Canal | |
| Places on the shore | Ismailia | |
| Data | ||
| Coordinates | 30 ° 34 ′ 40 " N , 32 ° 17 ′ 20" E | |
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| surface | 14 km² | |
| volume | 80,000,000 m³ | |
| Middle deep | 5.7 m | |
The Timsah Sea ( Arabic بحيرة التمساح, DMG Buḥairat at-Timsāḥ ) is a lake roughly in the middle of the isthmus of Suez in Egypt . The name means "crocodile lake". Today it lies on the Suez Canal , on the banks of which the city of Ismailia , which is the seat of the Suez Canal Authority , was laid out when the canal was built .
Before the Suez Canal was built, Lake Timsah was one of the shallow brackish water lakes in the isthmus. Since the Suez Canal was built, it has received seawater from the canal on the one hand, and the fresh water flowing out of the Ismailia Canal on the other . In 1870 the depth of the Timsah Sea in the fairway was given as 22 feet.
The city of Ismailia today stretches across the western side of the lake, with a number of beaches laid out on the southwestern bank. The east side consists of the Suez Canal or the alternative canal dug to enlarge the curve radius.
Until the construction of the Aswan Dam in 1966, which prevented the Nile flood , the Nile floods repeatedly reached Lake Timsah through Wadi Tumilat , which leads directly from the Nile Delta to it.
From 1967, with the beginning of the Six Day War, the American tanker Observer was stuck on the lake for several years (see Yellow Fleet ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm David Koner: Present depth of the Suez Canal . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . tape 5 , 1870, p. 84-86 ( Wikisource ).