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El Ojo: The mysterious floating island in Argentina's swampland that looks like a perfectly round eye

Aerial view of El Ojo in Argentina. The island is perfectly round, flat and covered in cropped vegetation.
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Name: El Ojo

Location: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Coordinates: -34.251894705027354, -58.82932152015028

Why it's incredible: The island and the lake it floats in are eerily smooth and round.

El Ojo is a mysterious, uninhabited floating island in Argentina's swampy Paraná Delta. Its name, meaning "the eye," comes from the island's striking resemblance to a perfectly round oculus when seen from above.

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