Lake
Lake Baikal
The deepest and oldest lake in the world, holding roughly a fifth of all unfrozen surface fresh water on Earth — more than all the North American Great Lakes combined.
Key facts
- Maximum depth
- 1,642 m
- Volume
- approximately 23,600 km³
- Share of global unfrozen surface fresh water
- approximately 20%
- Age
- approximately 25 million years
Relationships
- Located in: Russia
Related intelligence
Sources
- World Wildlife Fund / McGill University — HydroSHEDS / HydroRIVERS / HydroLAKES / HydroBASINS. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Global Water System Project — Global Reservoir and Dam Database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0
- Peer-reviewed scientific literature — Open-access hydrology, water chemistry and water use research. Public but restricted · Publisher terms — public access, reuse not clearly granted