However, there's more to Lake Baikal than just its size. It is the deepest lake on Earth, formed by a continental rift estimated to be 25 to 30 million years old, reaching a maximum depth of 1,642m.

Lake Baikal, in southern Siberia, ... During the summer, when Lake Baikal is full of melted ice from the Siberian mountains, it is sometimes possible to see more than 130 feet ...

Lake Baikal features 27 islands, ... Tourism development is a minor itch in comparison, though it may produce eyesores like the hotels and vacation communities of Listvyanka, ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — Along the ... Olkhon Island has become the go-to spot for visitors to Baikal. In the summer, it is accessible by ferry. In the winter, scores of wagons, called bukhankas, ...

But there is more to Baikal than numbers. Carved out by a continental rift and estimated to be 25-30 million years old, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake on Earth, plunging to a maximum depth of 1,642m.

A robot deployed to the bottom of Siberia's Lake Baikal last summer captured footage of cracks and deformations caused by previously unknown mud volcanoes — and you can watch the discovery in a ...

Lake Baikal may be the most biodiverse lake on the planet – amazing considering its relatively cold water temperatures – with more than 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals. What's ...

Lake Baikal’s largely clear ice supports large mats of algae that grow underneath. Credit: Sergey Pesterev/CC BY-SA 2.0. She and her colleagues eventually synthesized the existing data, and in ...

And then all of a sudden you see a great expanse of grey water opening before you. In summer it can be blue, but for us, travelling in November, the lake and sky met in the middle distance in a haze ...