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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Important Lakes of the World

by LotusArise May 15, 2023 1 Comment

Lakes (in News) Country/Place

Lake Eyre (or Lake Kati Thanda) South Australia

Lake Montbel France

Lake Tahoe USA

Lake Chad Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad

Penuelas Lake Chile

Sawa Lake Iraq

Sea of Galilee Isreal and Syria

Lake Poopo Bolivia

Lake Urmia Iran

Hamun Lake Iran-Afghanistan Border

Razazza Lake Iraq

Lake Assal Djibouti

Lake Fanguibine Mali

Lake Titicaca Peru and Bolivia

Lake Mead USA

Owens Lake USA

Great Salt Lake USA

Lake Ebinur JEbi Lake) China

Poyang Lake China

Lake Suchitlan El Salvador

Lake Garda Italy

Lake Baikal Russia

Lake Victoria Africa LUganda, Kenya, Tanzania)

Lake Oguta Nigeria

Aral Sea Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Dead Sea Jordan, West Bank, Israel

Pyramid Lake USA

Walker Lake USA

Salton Sea USA

Mono Lake USA

Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo,

Lake Tanganyika
Zambia and Burundi
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Black Sea is not a lake since Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits connect it to the
Mediterranean Sea. Many big rivers fall into the Black Sea, making the salinity of its
surface water half that of the ocean: 17‰.

Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea are lakes. The surface and shores of the Dead Sea
are 423 meters below sea level, making it Earth’s lowest elevation on land.

While writing facts about lakes, people ignore the Caspian Sea because for them it is
 too big to be considered a lake. But it is still a lake.

Just like everybody else, even I have ignored the Caspian Sea while stating the below
facts.

Lake Baikal – Deepest Lake

Lake Baikal is a rift lake located in southern Siberia, Russia.

It is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the
world’s fresh surface water.

It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.

Maximum depth: 1,642 m L5,387 ft)

It is the world’s oldest L25_30 million years) and deepest lake.

It has a long, crescent shape.

The region to the east of Lake Baikal is referred to as Transbaikalia or as the Trans
baikal.

The loosely defined region around the lake itself is sometimes known as Baikalia.

UNESCO declared Lake Baikal a World Heritage Site in 1996.

Baikal-GVD JGigaton Volume Detector)

Russian scientists launched one of the world’s biggest underwater neutrino
telescopes called the Baikal-GVD LGigaton Volume Detector) in the waters of
Lake Baikal.

It is one of the three largest neutrino detectors in the world along with the
IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea.

It seeks to study in detail the elusive fundamental particles called

neutrinos and to possibly determine their sources.

Lake Tanganyika – Longest Lake

The longest lake in the world. c660 kilometres long]

It is also the second largest by volume.

It is the second deepest lake in the world, after lake Baikal.

World’s Highest and Lowest Lakes

The world’s highest lake, if size is not a criterion, may be the crater lake of Ojos del
Salado, at 6,390 metres. It is in Andes.

The highest large lake in the world is the Pumoyong Tso JPumuoyong Tso), in the
Tibet Autonomous Region of China. c5,018 metres above sea level]

The world’s highest commercially navigable lake is Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia
border at 3,812 m. It is also the largest lake in South America.

The world’s lowest lake is the Dead Sea, bordering Israel and Jordan at 418 metres
below sea level. It is also one of the lakes with highest salt concentration.

The Largest Lakes (surface area) by Continent

Australia _ Lake Eyre (salt lake)

Africa _ Lake Victoria, also the third-largest freshwater lake on Earth. It is one of the
Great Lakes of Africa.

Antarctica _ Lake Vostok (subglacial)

Asia _ Lake Baikal (if the Caspian Sea is considered a lake, it is the largest in Eurasia,
but is divided between the two geographic continents)

Europe _ Lake Ladoga, followed by Lake Onega, both located in northwestern Russia.

North America _ Lake Superior.

South America _ Lake Titicaca, which is also the highest navigable body of water on
Earth at 3,812 metres above sea level. The much larger Lake Maracaibo is a
contiguous body of water with the sea, so it is ignored. ,

Great Lakes

Great Lakes of North America are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes which
connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario [in the order of west
to east]. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario cIn the order of largest to
smallest].

Lake Superior is the largest continental lake in the world by area, and Lake Michigan
is the largest lake that is entirely within one country.
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The Great Lakes are today used as a major water transport corridor for bulk goods.

The Great Lakes Waterway connects all the lakes; the smaller Saint Lawrence
Seaway connects the lakes to the Atlantic oceans.

Dead Sea

Also called the Salt Sea.

Lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Palestine and Israel to the west.

It Earth’s lowest elevation on land.

Aral Sea

It was a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan, in the south.

Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were
diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
African Great Lakes

Series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East
African Rift.

They include Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, and Lake
Tanganyika, the world’s second-largest in volume as well as the second deepest.
Largest Lakes by Surface Area

`Caspian Sea Excluded in all facts]

!" Lake Superior _ North America

$" Lake Victoria _ Africa

%" Lake Huron _ North America

&" Lake Michigan _ North America

Largest Lakes by Volume

!" Baikal _ Asia
 $" Tanganyika _ Africa

%" Superior _ North America

Deepest Lakes in the World

!" Lake Baikal _ Asia

$" Lake Tanganyika

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