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Jellyfish Lake

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians

Located on an uninhabited rock island off the coast of Koror in Palau, Jellyfish Lake is one of 70 saltwater lakes on this South Pacific archipelago that were once connected to the ocean, but are... »

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