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Lake of Tônlé-Sab, Cambodia in Dec. 2001. The lake is a natural floodplain  reservoir on the Sab rive, a tributary of the Mekong. During the June-to-November monsoonal regime, the swollen Mekong creates a backwater effect which reverses the flow direction in the lake.

(Courtesy of Mr and Mrs CHANSON)

© Hubert Chanson, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia