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salt pan
noun
: an undrained natural depression in which water gathers and leaves a deposit of salt on evaporation
Examples of salt pan in a Sentence
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Most of Mangystau is a loner’s playground: empty, teal-water beaches, honeycomb rock formations, sacred underground shrines, and salt pans baking under a hard sun.
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J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 June 2024
Here are some of the best eco-friendly options in locations worldwide, from the white sandy shores of Zanzibar to the salt pans of the Namib desert.
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Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 18 June 2024
Workers at salt pans in India toil in relentlessly rising temperatures.
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Mia Amor Mottley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
The next morning, Davis took me to the flamingo breeding grounds on the island's southern salt pans.
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Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2023
Surrounded by the savannahs of Botswana’s northeast, the pancake-flat Makgadikgadi Basin is one of the largest salt pans in the world.
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Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
Its main tourism regions—the Chobe River that forms its northern border, the flood plain of the Okavango Delta and the salt pans within the Kalahari Desert—allow for travel by boat as well as overland.
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Ann Abel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
That’s where Desert & Delta Safaris comes in, offering guests the chance to spend the night open to the elements on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan (part of the largest series of salt pans in the world, according to UNESCO).
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
The deal made the highly degraded expanse of marshes, mud flats and salt pans off limits to development.
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Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of salt pan was
in the 15th century
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“Salt pan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salt%20pan. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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salt pan
noun
: an undrained natural depression in which water gathers and leaves a deposit of salt on evaporation
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