Talk:Death Valley National Park

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Contents 1 Redirects 2 Recent Lake? 3 Designation? 4 lowest point in western hemisphere

[edit] Redirects

• Death Valley National Monument
• Death Valley, California

[edit] Recent Lake?

there is also danger in these parks. Danger that people can control. Was there really a past lake at Badwater called "Recent Lake"? I've searched for a reference, but all I've found are mirrors back to this wikipedia article -- or phrases along the lines of "the most recent lake in Death Valley...". USGS's GNIS has no entry for a "Recent Lake". Also casting doubt: isn't the convention for naming no-longer-extant lakes to begin them with the word Lake (as in Lake Manly)? -- ScottMainwaring, 20:06, 1 December 2005

In the absence of any verifiable source for this, I removed the reference to "Recent Lake". --ScottMainwaring 17:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Designation?

Didn't Death Valley use to be a national monument? - Montréalais

isn't it still...hold on I'll ck, nope, not as far I can tell--dgd

Yes it was at one time a national monument but was promoted to nationalparkhood 1994. --mav

[edit] lowest point in western hemisphere

I've adjusted this to "second lowest point in the western hemisphere". The CIA World Fact Book reports "Laguna del Carbon" in Argentina is 105 m below sea level. List of places on land with elevations below sea level puts things in that order too. --Halal 12:48, 22 November 2005 (UTC)