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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a rift lake in southern Siberia, Russia, the deepest lake in the world at about 1,640 metres and the largest freshwater lake by volume, holding more than a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh surface water. Fed chiefly by the Selenga, it is home to many species found nowhere else, including the Baikal seal. Peoples such as the Merkits and the Buryats lived near its shores.

Lake Baikal
Image: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lake Baikal. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lake-baikal
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