A network of bombcrater ponds on a meadow in Apaj, Central Hungary (IMAGE)
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Situated in the heart of the Pannonian Plain on the interfluve of the Danube and Tisza rivers, in the Hungary’s Kiskunság region, a cluster of 112 bomb crater ponds form a network with ponds differing in their distances. This so-called ‘pondscape’ was likely created during World War II by mistargeted bombing on a sodic meadow of the nearby airport.
Bomb craters may be scars on our Earth and reminders of devastating history but these ponds are thriving with life and providing habitat for a range of aquatic species today.
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Photo: Horváth Zsófia
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