Situated near Almyro in the foothills of Mount Othryos and at a height of just 130 metres above the sea, the Zerelia Lakes are hardly known to anyone barring the locals, in spite of their unusual shape and the manner in which they were formed, which makes them unique in Greece and one of the few of their kind in Europe and the world, ANA reports.
Small and perfectly round, they are believed to be crater lakes formed by the fall of meteorites during the Holocene, between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago. The size of the meteorite fragments that hit the earth is estimated at around 10-30 metres across.
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