dry salt bed

Dutch translation: zoutpan

09:51 Mar 31, 2010
English to Dutch translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
English term or phrase: dry salt bed
British sculptor Antony Gormley's (b. 1950) Inside Australia, for example, an installation of fifty-one black stainless steel figures on a dry salt bed, is in a remote part of Western Australia.
Renate van den Bos
Local time: 21:39
Dutch translation:zoutpan
Explanation:
of droog zoutmeer

Lake Ballard, waar de sculpturen staan, is een zoutmeer dat droog is komen te staan.

zoutpan
•een uitgedroogde bedding van een meer of zeearm die bedekt is met zout.
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Nicole Snoek (X)
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Bedankt!
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3 +3zoutpan
Nicole Snoek (X)
4opgedroogd zoutmeer
Ron Willems
4zoutvlakte
DJ Raats
2 +1droog zoutbed
Steven Mertens


  

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droog zoutbed


Explanation:
Slechts één referentie gevonden op Google ...

http://books.google.be/books?id=0lYJZRBqDkQC&pg=PA499&lpg=PA...

Steven Mertens
Local time: 21:39
Native speaker of: Native in FlemishFlemish, Native in DutchDutch

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agree  Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
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opgedroogd zoutmeer


Explanation:
het is een (bijna) opgedroogd zoutmeer, blijkens de vele referenties:

Antony Gormley: Inside Australia showcases this Turner Prize-winning artist’s stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10-square-kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia.
http://www.australianartbooks.com.au/books/products/antony_g...

A lake near Menzies -- approximately 130 km north of Kalgoorlie, a remote mining town 800 km northeast of the Western Australian capital of Perth -- recently enjoyed unusual attention from the international art scene when British sculptor Antony Gormley realized an ambitious public art project there.
Lake Ballard, a white and very shallow salt lake, a million years old, laden with history and myth, a site of ultimate silence, peacefulness and sublime beauty, became the stage for Gormley's installation of 51 "Insider"' sculptures in a work entitled "Inside Australia."
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/maculan/maculan4-28-...

Ron Willems
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zoutpan


Explanation:
of droog zoutmeer

Lake Ballard, waar de sculpturen staan, is een zoutmeer dat droog is komen te staan.

zoutpan
•een uitgedroogde bedding van een meer of zeearm die bedekt is met zout.

Nicole Snoek (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 21:39
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in DutchDutch
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Bedankt!

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agree  Max Nuijens
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  -> dank je, Max

agree  Barend van Zadelhoff: mooie vertaling
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  -> dank je, Barend

agree  Lucien van Valen, PhD (X)
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zoutvlakte


Explanation:
Zoutvlakte wordt veelal gebruikt voor dergelijke gebieden. Ze kunnen op allerlei manieren ontstaan. Wikipedia heeft het uitsluitend over tijdelijke meren in droge gebieden, maar dat lijkt hier (Australische Lake Ballard) het geval te zijn. INL geeft overigens enkel:

Zoutveld: terrein, gebied waarvan de bodem met gekristalliseerd zout is bedekt.

Example sentence(s):
  • De vlakte is ontstaan uit een serie grote en diepe meren, die in de loop van tienduizenden jaren door verdamping zijn ingedroogd.

    Reference: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoutvlakte
    Reference: http://archief.nrc.nl/index.php/2001/Februari/17/Overig/51/Z...
DJ Raats
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