急求死海简单的英文简介翻译
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The Dead Sea (Hebrew:יָם הַ‏‏מֶּ‏‏לַ‏ח,Yām HaMélaḥ,"Sea of Salt",also Hebrew:יָם הַ‏‏מָּוֶת,Yām HaMā́weṯ,"The Sea of Death"; Arabic:البحر الميت‎ al-Baḥr al-Mayyit (help·info),[4]),also called the Salt Sea,is a salt lakebordering Jordan to the east,and Palestine and Israel to the west.Its surface and shores are 427 metres (1,401 ft) below sea level,[3] Earth's lowest elevation on land.The Dead Sea is 306 m (1,004 ft) deep,the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.With 34.2% salinity (in 2011),it is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water,though Lake Vanda in Antarctica (35%),Lake Assal (Djibouti) (34.8%),LagoonGarabogazköl in the Caspian Sea (up to 35%) and some hypersaline ponds and lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleysin Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond (44%)) have reported higher salinities.It is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean.[5] This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish,hence its name.The Dead Sea is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 15 kilometres (9 mi) wide at its widest point.[1] It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley,and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

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