Ships Graveyard in the Desert of Moynaq, Uzbekistan
Ships Graveyard in the Desert of Moynaq, Uzbekistan
Moynaq ship Graveyard — Mo‘ynoq also spelled as Muynak and Moynaq, is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Formerly a sea port, now home to only a few thousand residents at most, Mo‘ynoq's population has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due to the recession of the Aral Sea. 30 years ago Moynaq was one of two biggest Soviet fishing harbours at the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea has been steadily decreasing since the 1960s, as the waters of the two rivers feeding it, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, were aimed at irrigating agricultural areas. Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 or 26,300 sq mi, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since in 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. In 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes – the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea, and one smaller lake between the North and South Aral Seas.However, in 2009, the southeastern lake had disappeared and the southwestern lake had retreated to a thin strip at the extreme west of the former southern sea. The maximum depth of the North Aral Sea is 42 meter or 138 ft in 2008.
The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet's worst environmental disasters. The region's once-prosperous fishing industry has been essentially destroyed, bringing unemployment and economic hardship. The Aral Sea region is also heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.
In an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea, a dam project was completed in 2005; in 2008, the water level in this lake had risen by 12 m or 39 ft compared to 2003. Salinity has dropped, and fish are again found in sufficient numbers for some fishing to be viable. The Aral Sea watershed encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Today Mo‘ynoq's major tourist attractions are the armada of rusting hulks that once made up the proud fishing fleet during the Soviet era, and a one-room museum devoted to Mo‘ynoq's heritage as a center of the fishing industry. Poisonous dust storms kicked up by strong winds across the dried and polluted seabed give rise to a multitude of chronic and acute illnesses among the few residents who have chosen to remain, most of them ethnic Karakalpaks, and weather unmoderated by the sea now buffets the town with hotter-than-normal summers and colder-than-normal winters.
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The Dried up Aral Sea Eco-Disaster
Explorer/adventurer George Kourounis visits the Aral Sea in western Uzbekistan where wasteful irrigation practices by the former Soviet Union have drained most of the water, creating a vast ecological disaster. Rusting fishing boats lie in the desert sands that used to be rich fishing grounds.
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Ship Cemetery in Aral Sea, Muynak, Uzbekistan.
STIHIA 2018 Aftermovie
Stihia is electronic music festival held at the ship graveyard, Muynak,, Uzbekistan, where monument commemorating the tragedy of the Aral Sea now stands.
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Uzbekistan's Ancient Silk Road Cities
We spent 2 weeks travelling Uzbekistan in Autumn, 2019 visiting the ancient cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and included a day trip to the Aral Sea ship cemetery near Muynak. Here we've captured the essence of our Uzbekistan trip.
Aral Sea Wrecks | Moynak, Uzbekistan
A collection of Still Images taken in Moynak, Uzbekistan.
Moynaq, Uzbekistan - former Aral Sea fishing port
30 years ago Moynaq was one of two biggest Soviet fishing harbours at the Aral Sea (the second was Aralsk in Kazakh SSR). Town was prospering with developed fish-processing industry. Unfortunately, because of redirecting two biggest tributaries of the Aral Sea: Amu Darya and Syr Darya into hundreds of inefficient water-feeding canals (in order to water new cotton fields in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan), the lake in the 1960s began to shrink. From year to year the process was accelerating and finally in the late 1970s it was impossible to maintain navigation channels, which were dug to connect harbour with lake shore, permeable for the boats. Moynaq was fated to die. Once encircled with water, eventually dwellers of Moynaq found themselves in the middle of the salty desert.
In today half-abandoned Moynaq one still may find plenty of traces from the past. The most noticeable are of course rusty fishing boats, which were recently collected in one place, below the monument of the Aral Sea catastrophe. Besides, one can see a fish in the emblem of the town - ironic relic.
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Aral Sea: Man-made environmental disaster - BBC News
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It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning. Latest satellite pictures reveal that 90% of the Aral Sea has dried up, forming a new desert between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia. It's a man-made environmental disaster. As part of the BBC's Richer World Season, Rustam Qobil visits the Aral Sea, a toxic desert sea bed, and talks to people who have lost their sea, health and loved ones.
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Moynaq
One of the most profound journeys I took was from Nukus to Moynaq in Uzbekistan. To the last port on the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, which is a sea no more. The desolation caused by the overfishing and redirection of the inland sea left this desert of a town like something from the wild west movies. And still even more stark it has happened in as many years as I have been on the planet. After visiting the ships graveyard, I was able to visit the Cannery where the fish was processed on mass for export mainly to the Ukraine.
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Uzbekistan: A 3-Day Aral Sea Tour
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Ep10: Entering Uzbekistan, The Aral Sea!
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The Global Convoy faced some issues crossing the border into Uzbekistan but luckily it all worked out and we were in!
We then had some interesting and troublesome experiences on the way to the ARAL SEA!!
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moynaq documentary project (2)
an assortment of facts collected by mary that describe the once great village of Moynaq
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