The almost perfectly circular lake on the Ungava Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, was formed by a meteorite that crashed from space and impacted the earth nearly 1.4 million years ago. It is surrounded by an almost lunar landscape and filled with pristine water that is covered in ice nine months of the year.
Its edges rise 160 meters high and a lake has formed inside it, which is up to 400 meters deep. The Pingualuit, with a diameter of more than three kilometres, has no inlets or apparent outlets, therefore the accumulation of water takes place exclusively through the rainwater that is lost only by evaporation. In addition to being one of the deepest lakes in North America, it is also considered to be among the clearest and purest in the world, with a visibility of over 35 meters.
