C1915 Great Bitter Lake

The Great Bitter Lake was a very important area for the repair of ships in the Suez. As the canals was too narrow and could only go through a row of ships at a time, the lakeshore became a resting place for the queue to enter the canals.

In the history, there were no lakes here. Before the canals dug this place up, it was just a low-lying area of saline soil and desert