Global InformationBuada Lagoon information
| Buada Lagoon | |
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 Buada Lagoon | |
  Buada Lagoon | |
| Location | Nauru |
| Coordinates | 0°32′7″S 166°55′20″E / 0.53528°S 166.92222°E |
| Type | lake |
| Surface area | 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) |
| Max. depth | 5 m (16 ft) |
Buada Lagoon is a landlocked, slightly brackish, freshwater lake of Buada District in the island nation of Nauru. It occupies about 0.05 square kilometres (0.019 sq mi).
The lagoon is classified as an endorheic lake, meaning there is no outflow to other bodies of water such as oceans or rivers.
The Buada Lagoon is the biggest and only true lake in Nauru, a small independent republic in Oceania consisting of a flat island of 21.3 km2 (8.2 sq mi) in area. The lake lies in Nauru's Buada district, from which it gets its name. It is not a lagoon as such, in that the lake is not joined to the sea, but its water is slightly brackish.[1][2]
Freshwater is rare in Nauru, being present only in the form of a small phreatic zone, the Moqua Well (a small underground lake) and the Buada Lagoon, which is the most visible, rivers and streams being utterly absent from the country.[3][4]
The lake has traditionally been used for pisciculture, which saw the raising of milkfish for human consumption through the centuries, and even though this practice was given up in the 1960s, it has lately seen efforts to revive it, despite the lagoon's water pollution.
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