BBMP clears Nayandahalli lake encroachment

A nameless island within Victoria Island in Canada's Nunavut Territory holds the rare distinction of being the world's largest island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island.

Satellite images by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 confirmed the presence of this unique landform. Here's how it goes: at the centre lies a seahorse-shaped island, approximately 1,000 feet wide, situated within a small, unnamed lake. This lake itself is part of a larger island, which sits inside a long, finger-shaped lake about 90 kilometres inland from Victoria Island's southern coast.

Guinness World Records has officially recognised this location as the largest of its kind. Given that Victoria Island – also known as "Kitlineq" by the Inuit – is the eighth-largest island in the world and part of the vast Canadian Arctic Archipelago, there is potential for undiscovered landforms of a similar nature. The region, dotted with thousands of islands and millions of post-Ice Age lakes, remains largely unexplored.