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Lakes and islands and lakes and islands

The internet is home to many unusual and intriguing pieces of information, as regular bdaily readers will know. In the past we have found out that sword swallowing can be bad for your health and that Google Maps are happy to recommend a 3000-mile swim across the Atlantic in its travel plans. Today’s little tidbit starts off innocuously enough – a website entitled Some interesting islands and lakes has pictures and maps of, unsurprisingly, some interesting islands and lakes. There’s the largest island (Greenland) and the largest lake (The Caspian Sea). Then they have the largest lake on an island (Nettilling Lake on Baffin Island in Canada, apparently). It then gets steadily more absurd, through the ‘largest lake on an island in a lake’ through to the ‘largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island’, which is Vulcan point in Crater Lake on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon, in the Phillipines.

We’re impressed with the information, but slightly worried that someone had enough time to put all this together.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .