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The Bonneville Salt Flats, at 159 square miles, are the largest of many
salt flats located west of the Great Salt Lake. It is the dried remnants of Lake Bonneville, originally the size
of Lake Michigan 15,000 years ago, and, as its name implies, is almost perfectly flat. The flats are named after French-born (and
West Point educated) Captain B.L.E. Bonneville whose expeditions in the 1830's were immortalized by Washington Irving in
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837). Sadly, Captain Bonneville never actually visited his namesake flats.
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