Lake Baikal Is The Deepest And Oldest Lake In The World

Question: What is the deepest lake in the world?

Answer: Lake Baikal is the deepest (1,700 m) and oldest (25 million years) freshwater lake in the world. It curves for nearly 400 miles though the mountainous Russian region of Siberia, north of the Mongolian border.  Lake Baikal contains 20% of the world’s total unfrozen freshwater reserve.

Known as the ‘Galapagos of Russia’, its age and isolation have produced one of the world’s richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science. It is also home to Buryat tribes who reside on the eastern side of Lake Baikal,rearing goats, camels, cattle, and sheep, where the mean temperature varies from a winter minimum of -19 °C (-2 °F) to a summer maximum of 14 °C (57 °F).

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The lake provides evidence of what the seaboards of North America, Africa and Europe looked like as they began to separate millions of years ago. The lake was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996

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