Deepest lakes in the world
Representational Image. Photo: Collected
Lake Baikal, the world's oldest lake at more than 25 million years old, formed within a rift basin created by the gradual stretching and fracturing of the Earth's crust over millions of years. Its extraordinary depth gives it global significance, as it alone contains about 20% of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater.
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