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Which Is the Deepest Lake in the World?
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Quick Answer
Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, reaches a maximum depth of 1,642 metres.
The Full Story
Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 metres, the oldest at about 25 million years, and it holds roughly 20 % of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater — more than all the North American Great Lakes combined. The lake sits in a rift valley and continues to widen by about 2 cm per year. It harbours over 2,500 species, about two-thirds of which are found nowhere else, including the nerpa, the world's only exclusively freshwater seal.
Key Facts
1.Baikal contains about 23,615 cubic kilometres of water.
2.The lake is so large that it would take all the rivers on Earth about a year to fill it.
3.Its water is among the clearest in the world, with visibility sometimes exceeding 40 metres.
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