Hokkaido Lakes Catalog

Kushiro Nemuro

Barasanto Pond

Betsukai Town ・ 茨散沼

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1978Barasanto Pond in 1978Aerial photo taken by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, shown with the film edge and instruments intact.

Aerial photo of Barasanto Pond (Betsukai Town, Hokkaido) taken in 1978
Taken October 26, 1978. Source: aerial photo by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (1978), resized.GSI Maps and Aerial Photo Service

About Barasanto Pond

A pond 7 m above sea level in the lowlands of Betsukai Town. It is 0.3 km² in area and 10 m deep. In the 1991 survey it was an unmodified lake, with water shield and water crowfoot, Sakhalin taimen, Japanese dace and white-spotted char, and whooper swans in winter.

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report (1993), Environment Agency of Japan, Lake Survey Report: Data Appendix (1993) (sources in Japanese)

Lake data

Surface elevation
7 m
Transparency
1 m#45 in Hokkaidoas of the 1991 survey
Origin
Other
Lake type
Dystrophic
Freezing
Freezes in winter
Unmodified lake
Yes (shore entirely natural)
Lake number
0330number in the national lake survey

Sources: Environment Agency of Japan, 4th National Survey on the Natural Environment: Lake Survey Report (1993). Area and depth use newer figures from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan where available. Origin, lake type, transparency, freezing and unmodified status are as of the 1991 survey.

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