Lake Timsah

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The Timsahsee is a lake about the middle of the isthmus of Suez in Egypt. The name means " crocodile lake ". He is now on the Suez Canal, on whose banks the occasion of the construction of the canal, the city of Ismailia was created, is the seat of the Suez Canal Authority.

Before the construction of the Suez Canal the Timsahsee was one of the shallow brackish water lakes in the isthmus. Since the construction of the Suez Canal, he receives one hand, sea water from the canal, on the other hand, the effluent from the Ismailia Canal fresh water. In 1870, the depth of the Timsahsee in the fairway was given as 22 feet.

The city of Ismailia, it now covers the western side of the lake, where the south-western shore a number of beaches have been created. The east side consists of the Suez Canal or the dug to increase the curve radius Alternate Channel.

Until the construction of the Aswan Dam in 1966, which prevented the flood of the Nile, the Nile floods reached again the Timsahsee through Wadi Tumilat which feeds directly to him from the Nile Delta.

From 1967 sat, with the outbreak of the Six - Day War, the American tanker Observer for several years on the lake (see Yellow fleet ).