English navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders led expeditions to map Terra Australis (the 15th–18th-century Latin name for an unknown southern continent meaning “South Land”) and is credited with naming the continent “Australia.”.Map of Matthew Flinders’s expeditions with Middle Island marked with a pink dot.Ĭredit: Adapted from illustrations in Australian Navigators by Robert Tiley (2002) These organisms thrive in salty lakes and commercial salt evaporation ponds, resulting in a range of vivid colors. They are the same organisms that color the brine shrimp that flamingos dine upon that end up coloring the feathers of the flamingos. The lake is as salty as the Dead Sea, but what makes it flamingo pink? Hypersaline bacteria and algae that protect themselves from ultraviolet light (UV) damage using beta-carotene. Synopsis: As he was exploring the southern coast of Australia in 1802, Mathew Flinders scrambled to the high point of an island and observed a baffling otherworldly sight: a bright pink lake. These pink lakes are valuable sources of both salt and beta-carotene, and for many years people have visited them to collect both. When the sun shines through it and bounces off the light-colored bottom, we get a bright, flamingo-pink lake. In fact, they’re so salty that almost nothing can live in them, except that microalgae.Īnd there’s so much of it that it colors the water red. So, pink algae make pink shrimp, which make flamingos pink.īut what about the pink lakes? They don’t have any flamingos in them. It starts out green, but to protect itself from UV radiation, produces a pigment that acts as a natural sunblock: beta-carotene. In these salty lakes lives a particular kind of microalgae adapted to the saline water. After a couple years of eating shrimp, flamingos, which start out gray, have consumed enough beta-carotene to turn their feathers pink.īut what makes the shrimp pink? It’s also something they eat. These shrimp are pink, colored by high concentrations of beta-carotene-the same pigment that makes carrots orange. The birds spend much of their lives wading and feeding in shallow lakes that aren’t pink but are salty and hold the flamingo’s favorite food: brine shrimp. To understand what gives them their bright color, we should first understand what makes flamingos pink. In a few rare places in the world, there are salt lakes that are flamingo pink. The custom fonts used are called KG Skinny Latte or KG Primary Penmanship (you can find them on Teachers Pay Teachers from the font creator).Beautiful flamingo-pink Lake Hillier is located on Middle Island, off the southern coast of western Australia.Ĭredit: Kurioziteti123, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons If you want the text editable items to match the look of the original decor, you may need to purchase some of the fonts. Editable label posters in 3 different sizes to create team labels, center labels, etc.
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Once you complete your purchase you'll be able to download the zip file including all of the decor files. If you love flamingos, pineapples, palm leaves, and all things tropical as much as I do you will LOVE this Tropical themed classroom decor pack! It includes over 350 pages and I've made some editable for your convenience! This download will make decorating your classroom a breeze! 🙂
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