Burdur Gölü

Lake Burdur (altitude: 845m/2,773ft), 35km/22mi long and 9km/6mi across at its widest, was known in antiquity as Askania Limnae. It lies in a trough of relatively recent origin, the axis of which runs parallel to the mountains, with a fault-line close to the lake's southern shore. It is no surprise therefore that the area is subject to severe earthquakes (e.g. at Dinar in 1914 and Burdur in 1968). During the last Ice Age the water level was considerably higher (about 950m/3,118ft above sea level) and the lake much larger, extending southwest into what is now the Lake Yarasli basin and draining northeastwards, via the valley-like watershed of Baradiz, through the Isparta basin into Lake Egridir.