No-one seriously knows just what will cause the strange colouring of Lake Hillier, but a group of researchers from the eXtreme Microbiome Task (XMP) have discovered a few probable suspects.Except for a few years when salt extraction was becoming carried out in this article, the island and its pink lake has been Nearly untouched and has because then

The lake was topic to salt mining during the late nineteenth century. The salt mining enterprise is reported as failing for a variety of causes including "the toxicity on the salt collected for intake".[eight]DNA sequencing has revealed that a vivid pink lake on an island off Western Australia gets its colour from a mix of salt-loving microbes and

Cruises may also be an selection for travellers eager to visit the isolated lake, and bordering forest location.alga is present but it really’s not the dominant organism by any suggests,” explained Ken.  “Our genetic sequencing confirms that it is the bacterium that's the true cause the lake is pink.”Lake Hillier are available on an island