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Yes, Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia (Asia), is the world's deepest fresh water lake at 1,638 metres deep. It is 636 km long and is the world's sixth largest lake and 1,181 metres of it is below sea level.
It contains 20% of the world's fresh water which is so clear that divers suffer from vertigo.
Based on sediment at the bottom, it is also the world's oldest lake at 25 million years, based on an ancient fault, the Olkhon Crevice.
2,000 species of plant and animal life have been identified in Lake Baikal, 75% of which appears nowhere else in the world.
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What is the world's deepest freshwater lake in the world?
Baikal Lake (Ozero Baikal)
What is the largest freshwater lake is the world?
Lake Baikal Is the worlds largest freshwater lake
What is the largest freshwater lake by volume?
The largest freshwater lake by volume is Lake Baikal in Russia.
What is the world's most voluminous freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal
What deep freshwater lake is in central Siberia?
lake baikal
What is the largest freshwater lake in eurasia?
The largest freshwater lake by volume in the world is Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia.
What is the biggest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal, In Southern Siberia. Lake Baikal, In Southern Siberia.
What is the largest lake in central Asia?
The largest lake in Central Asia is Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is in Siberia at the Russian city of Irkutsk. Lake Baikal contains the most freshwater by volume and is the deepest on Earth.
What is the name of the earth's largest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.The caspian sea
What deep freshwater is located in central Siberia?
Lake Baikal is the deepest oldest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake by volume.
How is lake baikal the same as angels falls?
both freshwater
Where is the wordls largest freshwater lake?
Lake Superior - by surface area Lake Baikal - by volume
