Earth’s 7 Lowest Points by Continent (“Seven Lows”) + Lowest under water & ice + Lowest by countries

7 Lows with elevations and ranks [x]: Dead Sea, Asia, Israel/Jordan [1] -437 m (-1434 ft) Lake Assal, Africa, Djibouti [2] -155 m (-509 ft) Laguna del Carbón, South America, Argentina [3] -105 m (-344 ft) Death Valley, North America, USA [4] -86 m (-282 ft) Deep Lake, Antarctica [5] -51 m (-167 ft) Caspian Sea, Europe, several countries [6] -28 m (-92 ft) Lake Eyre, Australia [7] -15 m (-49 ft) Keywords: Geography Viz, World Geography, Lowest elevation points, Seven Lows, Lake Eyre, Caspian Sea, Deep Lake, Death Valley, Laguna del Carbón, Lake Assal, Dead Sea, Lake Baikal, Denman Glacier, Challenger Deep, Kola Superdeep Refs & credits Fly-in animations: Google Earth Pro-2x VE Eyre water level: https://web.archive.org/web/20120523201740/http://www.ilec.or.jp/database/oce/oce-04.html Eyre depths: NASA. 2020. Sizing up Remote Lakes. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148230/sizing-up-remote-lakes Eyre photo: Lake Eyre 2004, ogwen, https://web.archive.org/web/20161027005658/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/76389325 Eyre: Schellart, W. P., & Spakman, W. 2015. Australian plate motion and topography linked to fossil New Guinea slab below Lake Eyre. Earth and Planetary Sci Letters, 421, 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.036 Eyre: Magee, J. W., & Miller, G. H. 1998. Lake Eyre palaeohydrology from 60 ka to the present: beach ridges and glacial maximum aridity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 144, 307-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00124-2 Caspian water level: https://cabar.asia/en/caspian-sea-passes-critical-shallow-point-what-is-the-reason-behind-a-sharp-decline-in-water-level-in-largest-inland-body-of-water#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20its%20level%20reached,a%20natural%20way%20via%20precipitation. Caspian photo: NASA Johnson Space Center. 2018. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISS056-E-13641_-_View_of_Azerbaijan.jpg Caspian: Kaz’Min, V. G., & Verzhbitskii, E. V. 2011. Age and origin of the South Caspian Basin. Oceanology, 51, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437011010073 Caspian animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UevnAq1MTVA 100-15 Ma Deep water level: https://researchdata.edu.au/water-levels-deep-vestfold-hills/701721 Deep photo: Paul Hunt, antarctica.gov.au, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4041816909235498&set=a.906628919420995 Deep: https://earthathome.org/hoe/glaciers/ Deep: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-3-2/3-1-introduction-polar-regions-people-and-the-planet/ipcc-srocc-cb_8_1/ Death Valley: USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED) Death Valley photo: Joe Parks. 2011. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Badwater_Basin_-_Flickr_-_Joe_Parks.jpg Death Valley: NPS https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/faults.htm del Carbón elevation: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/. 9/7/2023. del Carbón: Echavarría, L. E., Schalamuk, I. B., & Etcheverry, R. O. (2005). Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 19, 415-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2005.06.005 del Carbón photo: Extracted Google Maps photo Assal water level: Lynch DK "Land Below Sea Level". https://geology.com/below-sea-level/ Assal photo: Watson P, ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06cz0t8.jpg Assal animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N9JrNjE5qI Dead Sea water level: https://icl-group-sustainability.com/reports/dead-sea-water-level/ Dead Sea photo: Dead Sea Float_12IGD1530_Itamar Grinberg_IMOT, Dead Sea float. 2012. Itamar Grinberg for the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. https://www.flickr.com/photos/israelphotogallery/14855986900/in/photostream/ Dead Sea: Aldaajani, T. Z., Almalki, K. A., & Betts, P. G. 2021. Plume versus slab-pull: example from the Arabian Plate. Frontiers in Earth Sci, 9, 700550. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.700550 Dead Sea: Smit, J., Brun, J. P., Fort, X., Cloetingh, S. A. P. L., & Ben-Avraham, Z. 2008. Salt tectonics in pull-apart basins with application to the Dead Sea Basin. Tectonophysics, 449(1-4), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007.12.004 Baikal imagery: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baikal-S1999276045323.png Denman Glacier aerial: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/denman20200325-nasa.jpg Challenger Deep bathymetry: Google Map capture Earth Interior fig: https://www.geologyin.com/2016/01/what-is-difference-between-oceanic.html Countries land below sea level: https://geology.com/below-sea-level/ Danakil photo: A.Savin 2018 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ET_Afar_asv2018-01_img46_Dallol.jpg Vpadina Kaundy photo: Thermokarst 2010 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_Karagiye_Depression.JPG Quattara photo: cheesy42 2007 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Qattara_Depression_(March_2007).jpg Turpan photo: Colegota 2005 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turpan-flaming-mountains-camellos-d01.jpg