Lake Hillier, in Australia has a ‘candy pink’ colour: What makes it look like that?
Nestled on Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago off Western Australia, Lake Hillier looks like a scene from a fantasy painting, a candy-pink body of water ringed by white salt crusts and eucalyptus woodland. Its colour has fascinated sailors, scientists and tourists since Matthew Flinders first noted “a small lake of a rose colour” in…
