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1. Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia, and it is just as easily the deepest lake in the world (1,620 metres). (Web site)
2. Baikal is both the deepest lake in the world and, with 20% of all of the liquid freshwater on earth, has the greatest volume. (Web site)
3. Lake Baikal is in a rift valley, created by the Baikal Rift Zone, where the crust of the earth is pulling apart.
4. Lake Baikal is at the right of the image and the Angara flowing north from Irkutsk can clearly be made out.
5. Lake Baikal is more than 640 km (400 mi) long and over 1,600 m (5,000 feet) deep. (Web site)

Angara River

1. Barguzin is the third (by the flow amount) inflow of Baikal, after Selenga and Upper Angara River. (Web site)

Lake

1. Transfer to Listvyanka village from the Lake Baikal - the deepest and the largest lake in the world, sized appr.
2. At 1,637 meters (5,371 ft), Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.
3. In 1898, the first train reached Irkutsk and the shores of Lake Baikal. (Web site)

Shores

1. The Baikal, Barguzin, and other mountain ranges surround the lake, rising on all shores except the southeastern Selenge delta. (Web site)

Soyuz

1. The radio callsign of the crew was "Amur"; that of Soyuz 5, with which it was to dock, was "Baikal". (Web site)

Steppes

1. Kimak religion was the same as majority of Türks, in the steppes from the Baikal to Danube the Türks believed in Tengri.

Trans-Siberian

1. A second primary route is the Trans-Manchurian line, which coincides with the Trans-Siberian as far as Tarskaya, a few hundred miles east of Baikal. (Web site)

Omul

1. Omul is a golden-scaled fish about 9 inches long, found only in Baikal and considered by Russians a great delicacy.

World

1. It is the second largest of African lakes, the second deepest (next to L. Baikal) and the longest lake of the world. (Web site)

Irkutsk

1. We'll hop off the train in Mongolia's capital Ulaan Baatar before swerving up to Irkutsk where we'll visit the world's deepest lake, Baikal.
2. The easiest way to get to Baikal from Irkutsk is through mini-buses that run on the hour.
3. Thanks to Baikal, Irkutsk became an exception for yet another reason.

Baikal

1. Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia, and it is just as easily the deepest lake in the world (1,620 metres). (Web site)
2. Baikal is both the deepest lake in the world and, with 20% of all of the liquid freshwater on earth, has the greatest volume. (Web site)
3. It is assumed that the ancestors of omul got into Baikal from the polar regions - Arctic ocean. (Web site)

Categories

1. Lake Baikal
2. Countries > Russia > Siberia > Irkutsk
3. Amur
4. Liquids > Water > Lakes > Largest Lake
5. Places > Earth > Oceans > Arctic Ocean
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