Ten hulls, standing on a dry seabed, the sky enormous, the salt underfoot. One of the most direct pieces of visual evidence for what happened to the Aral. Come. Come with respect. And come with water; Muynak in July hits forty-five.
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Muynak and the Aral Sea ship graveyard
The world's fourth-largest lake shrunk by 90% in 60 years. The fishing port of Muynak now sits 150 km from open water. Rusting Soviet trawlers stand on the dunes as monuments.
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Muynak & the Aral Sea
Rusting Soviet ships in a desert that used to be a sea
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