Lake Timsah, also known as
Crocodile Lake, is a lake in
Egypt on the
Nile delta. It lies in a basin developed along a
fault extending from the
Mediterranean Sea to the
Gulf of Suez through the
Bitter Lakes region. In 1800, a flood filled the
Wadi Tumilat, which caused Timsah's banks to overflow and moved water south into the Bitter Lakes about nine miles (14 km) away. In 1862, the lake was filled with waters from the
Red Sea.