Bitter big lake

The Bitter Big lake (; : Al-Buhayrah Al-Murra Al-Kubra) is a salt water lake located between the parts north and south of the Suez Canal. The Small Bitter Lake (; : Al-Buhayrah Al-Murra have-Sughra) is contiguous for him. Together, these two lakes have a surperficie approximately 250 km ². In north, the channel also uses two other lakes, the Manzala and the Timsah.

As the channel does not have any lock, the sea water, coming from the Mediterranean and of the Red Sea, runs out freely in the lake, replacing the water lost following evaporation. The lake acts like a stop for the channel, by reducing the effect of the marine currents.

February 14th, 1945, on the Bitter Big lake, the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, coming directly from the Conference of Yalta, meets aboard cruiser USS Quincy (the king of the Saudi Arabia, Abd Al-Aziz Ben Abd Al-Rahman Al Saoud. The only witness of this meeting is the interpreter of the US president and there does not exist any known official report of this discussion.

At the time of the War the Six day old in 1967, the channel was closed and 14 ships were blocked in the lake up to 1975. They were baptized Yellow Fleet (the yellow fleet), because of the sand of desert which quickly covered their bridges. A certain number of stamps (or rather, decorative labels, since they do not have any postal validity) were created by the crews and are very required today by the collectors.

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