Lough Hyne is the most studied piece of water in the world
THE fourth episode of UTV’s travel series Lesser Spotted Journeys tonight puts down anchor in Lough Hyne, Co Cork. It’s Ireland’s only salt-water lake. The sea’s tides have been crashing into its waters through a tunnel for the last 4,000 years.
“It’s probably one of the most studied pieces of water anywhere in the world,” says presenter Joe Mahon, “Because so many professors of biology from universities in Europe and America have cut their teeth there going back to the late 1800s.”
