Lake Baikal

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satellite photo of Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a large lake in an isolated region in Siberia.[1] It drains into the Yenisei River. It is the world's deepest lake and it is the largest freshwater lake, by volume, although other lakes, like Lake Superior, have greater surface areas.

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  1. Water We Talking About? The Greatest Lake(s)], University of Wisconsin, 2020-08-28. Retrieved on 2024-02-14. “If you are talking about the lake with that holds the most water, then you need to head to a place in Russia just north of its border with Mongolia, where the crystal-clear waters of Lake Baikal plunge down more than a mile to a lake floor formed at the intersection of two continental plates.”