Morskie Oko

The largest lake in the High Tatras

The sea eye ( pl. Morskie Oko, slk. Sea Eye ) in Poland is the largest and with a maximum depth of 50.8 m, the fourth- lowest (mountain) lake in the High Tatras. The lake lies at an altitude of 1395 m above sea level and has an area of 34.9 ha

The glacial lake is located at the foot of Rysy ( German the Rysy ), on whose summit leads the Polish- Slovak border.

The lake, which is one of the most popular destinations of the Tatra Mountains, you arrive either by horse, or about 9 km on foot. Once at the top, stands on the lake to the north final moraine Staszic the hut of the Polish Friends of Nature ( PTTK ). The well attended hut is located at 1405 meters above sea level and is one of the oldest in the High Tatras. Was named the cottage after Stanisław Staszic, who explored the lake in 1805.

In the 19th century raged a fierce legal controversy within the Habsburg Monarchy on the membership of the lake and its surroundings to Galicia (today's southern Poland) or upper - Hungary (now Slovakia), the Polish legal scholar Oswald Balzer could decide before the Graz Court of Galicia.

Also the name of the lake was not always the same. Due to the unusual for lakes in the Tatra fish stocks, he was formerly called Rybie Jezioro ( " fishing lake "). The present name is derived from a Meerauge legend that the lake would have an underground connection to the sea.

The numerous cirque lakes in the High Tatra hot polish oka ( German: "eyes" Sing oko ) or stawy ( German " pond " Sing staw ), Slovak ( and Czech) plesa (sing. Pleso ); commonly called the lake Jezero jezioro Polish, Slovak and Czech jazero.

  • Lake in Europe
  • See in Poland
  • Vistula river system
  • Geography ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship )
  • High Tatras
  • Gmina Bukowina
  • Karsee
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