May 19, 2006 - Ship cemetery at what used to be the Aral Sea in the former Uzbek fishing village of Moynaq.
May 19, 2006 - Ship cemetery at what used to be the Aral Sea in the former Uzbek fishing village of Moynaq. Due to decades of Soviet cotton irrigation in the Turkmen and Uzbek deserts, within the last 40 years the shores of the Aral Sea have receded to a point where Moynaq is now 180 kilometres from the lake's present coastline.
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