The deepest point of this southeastern Siberian lake is about 3,800 feet below sea level
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Deepest Lake in the World - Deepest Lake in the United States  Lake Baikal in Russia is the world's deepest lake and Crater Lake in Oregon is the ... a lake in the middle of a continent could have a bottom that is nearly 4,000 feet below sea level. ... Lake Baikal map: Lake Baikal is located in southern Siberia near the city if Irkutsk. ... Its deepest measured depth is 1,949 feet (594 meters).
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Lake Baikal, Russia | Everyone`s Creative Travel Spot | Pinterest ...  Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia - The deepest lake in the worldat over a mile (1,700 ... the lake freezes, but the water is so clear that you can see 130 feet below the ice. ..... Lake Titicaca Bolivia, 3800 meters -12500 feet above sea level... you can ...... Lake Baikal, located in the southern part of eastern Siberia in Russia, is an...
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Lake Baikal | lake, Russia | Britannica.com  May 26, 2015 ... Lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the ... of the lake at its deepest is more than 3,800 feet (1,160 metres) below sea level...
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Lake Baikal - Wikipedia  Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the ... The bottom of the lake is 1,186.5 m (3,893 ft) below sea level, but below this ... Russian, U.S., and Japanese cooperative studies of deep-drilling core ..... For the quality of service and comfort from the visitor's point of view, Lake...
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The Orography of Asia. I. Introductory Remarks - jstor  the governing-key point of Andean geography, and south of it is Lake Titicaca, which is now ... expedition realized at last what had been the dream of the Siberian. Expedition ...... plateau, near its south-eastern border, at an altitude of 3800 feet. .... being in places as low as from 3600 to 4740 feet below the sea-level, and the...
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Below Sea Level: The World's Ten Lowest Points of Land ...  Oct 13, 2016 ... The Salton Sea is 234 feet (71.3 meters) below sea level and is a saline ... enclosed body of water in the world and its shore is 92 feet below sea level (-28 meters.) ... in the world below sea level straddling the borders of Azerbaijan, Iran, ... Lake Assal is the lowest point of land in Africa and it is marked by...
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10 Deepest Lakes In The World | 10 Most Today  Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia  deepest lake in the world with a depth of 1,637 ... in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water ... It is estimated to be also the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume. ... freezes, hence its name, which means hot lake in the Kyrgyz language.
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Deepest Cave, Call of the Abyss, learn more - National Geographic ...  The total length of its labyrinth of limestone passages is not known, but some 350 miles (560 kilometers) have been mapped. (Optimisticheskaya Cave in...
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Lake Baikal | lake, Russia | Britannica.com  May 26, 2015 ... Lake located in the southern part of eastern Siberia within the ... Baikal contains some 45 islets and islands, the largest of which are Olkhon (about 270 square miles [700 ... The water is very clear; from the surface one can see to 130 feet (40 ... (550-km-) long Bratsk Reservoir is among the world's largest.
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Lakes - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 100 of 274 ... Alakol, Lake salt lake in Kazakhstan, 110 miles (180 km) east of ... Formed by damming the Tuma River just north of Jinotega city, ... Aral Sea a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. ... Situated at 515 ft (157 m) below sea level, it is the lowest point in Africa. ..... It is 60 feet (18 m) below ocean level.
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Jeopary Questions page 902 - JAPAN'S NEXT TOP MODEL ...  GEOGRAPHY: 131 feet below sea level, Argentina's lowest point is on this dry, windy region's Valdez Peninsula  INVENTORS: He was knighted in 1866 not for...
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Lake Baikal, world's deepest body of freshwater, turning into swamp ...  Sep 8, 2014 ... The world's oldest and deepest body of freshwater, Lake Baikal, ... One of the natural wonders and the pearl of Russia's Siberia, Lake Baikal has ... 20% of the world's unfrozen surface freshwater  the greatest in the ... only major employer and accounted for 80 percent of its income. ... More from RT.com.
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jeopardy/1063_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ALL ABOUT KAZAKHSTAN | Over 400 feet below sea level, Kazakhstan's lowest point is just east of this large landlocked salt lake | the Caspian Sea.
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Lakes - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 100 of 274 ... Lake Alakol has a drainage basin of about 26,500 square miles ... sea level and is situated 600 miles (966 km) east of the Aral Sea. ... It is situated 3,200 feet (975 m) above sea level in the Great Rift ... Biwa, Lake largest freshwater lake in Japan, located in Shiga ken (prefecture), west-central Honshu.
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Djibouti - List of countries of the world  At 500 feet below sea level, Lake Assal is the lowest point on the African continent, and after Death Valley and the Sea of Galilee, the third lowest point on the...
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Deep, ancient Lake Baikal in trouble? | Earth | EarthSky  Jun 2, 2016 ... The world's deepest lake - Lake Baikal - is also the world's oldest lake. ... Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia with about half a million population. ... of the four largest lakes in the world, now less than 10% of its original size after ... Holding 20% of all unfrozen surface fresh water on Earth, Lake Baikal is...
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How Big is Lake Superior? - Lake Superior Magazine  To reach its deepest point, you'd need to descend 1,276 feet  about the ...
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Modern World Nations-Congo - K12  ... miles (673 kilometers) and depth of 4,710 feet (1,436 meters), Lake Tanganyika is the ... (Lake Baikal in Siberia reaches a depth of 5,371 feet, or 1,637 meters.) ... In surface area, how- ever, it is only the second-largest lake in Africa (trailing ..... world rubber boom, even more workers were needed to go ever deeper into the...
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Caspian Sea - New World Encyclopedia  Apr 19, 2013 ... In 2004, the water level was 28 meters (92 feet) below sea level. ... The eastern shore of the southern Caspian is low and formed of sediments...
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Lake Baikal Facts | Lake Baikal  World's Deepest Lake  Lake Baikal, in eastern Siberia, is no ordinary lake. Here are some interesting facts about it:  Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 1,632m.  It is also the world's largest ... More than 300 streams and rivers flow into Lake Baikal, but there is just one outlet, the Angara.  The water in the lake...
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permafrost | geology | Britannica.com  Jun 10, 2016 ... It is estimated to underlie 20 percent of the world's land surface. ... It is 1,500 metres (5,000 feet) thick in northern Siberia, 740 metres thick in northern ... Arctic Ocean, on the northern continental shelves of North America and Eurasia. .... A deep lake that does not freeze to the bottom during the winter will be...