Lake Baikal National Geographic

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Lake baikal national geographic. But with a water temperature rarely rising above eight degrees celsius it s not as inviting as it looks. On his world cup tour of russia explorer sergey gordeev visits siberia to learn about the world s oldest largest and deepest lake lake baikal. The ice of russia s lake baikal cracks in this national geographic photo of the day. A crack breaks the surface of frozen lake baikal in this national geographic photo of the day from our your shot community.

Eerily ethereal yet majestic and mighty this is lake baikal in winter friday 11 may 2018 by national geographic traveller uk we re totally overwhelmed by this icy wonderland in the south of siberia. Its bottom is nearly 2 kilometers more than 1 mile below the surface in places. The caspian sea in europe and asia is the world s largest lake with an area of more than 370 000 square kilometers 143 000 square miles. Photographers eager to capture an image like this one should be ready to brave the.

On his world cup tour of russia explorer sergey gordeev visits siberia to learn about the world s oldest largest and deepest lake lake baikal. National geographic video home. The world s deepest lake is lake baikal in russia. But with a water temperature rarely rising above eight degrees celsius it s not as inviting as it looks.

This record breaking lake holds twenty percent of the earth s fresh water as much as all five of america s great lakes combined. An ice cave beckons on lake baikal the world s oldest and deepest freshwater lake located in siberia. Lakes also vary greatly in depth.