Lonar Crater


     Amazing creation of nature is a notified National Geo-heritage monument. Located at Lonar in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. It is full of saline water identified in 1823 by a British officer named C.J.E. Alexander. 

     A series of small hills surround the basin, which has an oval shape, almost round, with a circumference at top of about 8 km. The sides of the basin rise abruptly at an angel of about 75 degree. Lonar Lake lies within the only known extraterrestrial impact crater found within the great Deccan Traps, a huge basaltic formation in India.






Location: Lonar Lake, Maharashtra 443302

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