Lake Baikal

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Lake Baikal
Delivered a presentation
Bolotina Anastasia

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Located in south-eastern Siberia, north of the
Mongolian border and surrounded by
mountains, forests and wild rivers, Baikal is
an immense and breathtaking area of natural
beauty. It is the world’s oldest and deepest
freshwater lake, declared a World Heritage
Site by UNESCO in 1996.

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Vast as a sea and deep as an ocean trench, Russia's Lake Baikal is one of
the world's great natural wonders. With a surface area bigger than
Belgium, it contains nearly one quarter of the entire world's freshwater.
The water in the lake creates a mild microclimate around its shores.

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Baikal is the world’s most ancient
freshwater lake. It originated
approximately 20-25 million years ago.
While more than 300 rivers flow in,
only one - the Angara - flows out,
eventually draining into the Arctic
Ocean, hundreds of kilometers to the
north.
The Earth's deepest inland body of
water, its massive stone basin is so
large that all of the rivers on the planet
would take an entire year to fill it.

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Lake Baikal is one of the clearest and
purest bodies of water. In a good day
you could see 40 meters into the lake.
Lake Baikal is home to more than 2,000
species of plants and animals, two-thirds
of which are endemics. They can be
found nowhere else in the world,
including the Baikal omul fish and
golomyanka оr Baikal oil fish as well as
the nerpa, one of the world's only
freshwater species of seal.

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The ice of Baikal, whose thickness can reach 1.5
meters, does not have a uniformly even surface.
There are also large slabs and huge blocks of ice
that can reach 12 meters in height and resemble
rock crystals;