saltpan , auch: pan ***

Off in the distance, the sun shimmered from a saltpan.

There was a saltpan and a fishery in the manor.

Power shimmered all around him like heat haze rising from a saltpan.

We left behind the saltpan, the dry, hummocky grass, the webbing of healthier growth.

Then we come into Saltpan Reach.

With just minutes of fuel remaining, the commander spotted a saltpan near the coast and prepared the crew for an emergency landing.

Its name means "saltpan" in Turkish.

Construction of the Wading Pool began in 1932 at a spot where there was a small indentation known as the saltpan.

The saltpan where 'Shady Lady' had landed was due to flood soon as the season changed.

The beach lies to the southeast along with a lagoon a kilometer long and 500 m wide and is made up of a saltpan.

We rode out of sand into the saltpan hardpack of the border between desert and foothills.

The largest of these - and the world's largest salt concentration - is the Uyuni Saltpan, which covers over 9,000 square kilometers.

Lake Eyre can be seen from several vantage points along the Oodnadatta Track and appears as a large, rather featureless, white saltpan.

Australia's newest and largest pelican colony in the normally dry saltpan of Lake Eyre in inland Australia.

Her hulk was towed to Sydney and was scuttled in Saltpan Creek, Middle Harbour.

Shady Lady's worlds collide again on a Kimberley saltpan by Tony Barrass The Australian Newspaper.

Salt production was an industry on the island from the 11th century (the Domesday Book recorded a saltpan on the island for this purpose) until the late 19th century.

The saltpan is devoid of vegetation, and the rest of the valley floor and lower slopes have sparse cover, although where water is available, an abundance of vegetation is usually present.

In 2000, except for the southwest region, little lakewater remains, and the entire lake area has become a saltpan, with the centre of the lake holding silt swamps, and no longer holds any native birds.

Edward Long argued in his 1744 History of Jamaica argues that the names were "a corruption of caragua, the Indian name for coratoe, or great aloe, which overspreads the adjacent Saltpan Hill".

It was supposed to be completed by January 2011 but faced several delays due to obtaining permissions for construction in forest and saltpan areas, reclaiming of land and difficulties posed by underground utilities in the construction work.

Marooned in one of the world's most barren places, it is strangely lit by the luminous glow from the nearby Salar de Uyuni, the largest saltpan on earth and a remnant of the sea that once covered this area.

Discovered by Edward John Eyre in 1839, for the following twenty years it was believed that Lake Torrens was an enormous horseshoe-shaped saltpan encircling the northern Flinders Ranges and blocking any path to the interior.

In May 1915, Princess Irene was moored in Saltpan Reach, on the Medway Estuary in Kent between Port Victoria and Sheerness, being loaded with mines in preparation for deployment on a minelaying mission.

The government's mineral policy also gave a high priority to exploiting the lithium and potassium deposits located in the brines of the southern Altiplano's Salar de Uyunia (Uyuni saltpan), estimated to be the largest of their kind in the world.