Ten deepest lake in the world

Deepest Lakes In The World
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This is a list of the world’s deepest lakes (you
can also take a look at the world’s largest lakes
by area):
1. Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia – deepest lake in
the world with a depth of 1,637 meters (5369 ft).
Lake Baikal is also the most voluminous
freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly
20% of the world’s unfrozen surface fresh water
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Lake Baikal,
Siberia, Russia
2. Lake Tanganyika, central Africa – 1,470
meters deep (4,823 ft). It is estimated to be
also the second largest freshwater lake in the
world by volume. The lake is divided among four
countries – Tanzania, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Burundi, and Zambia
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Lake Tanganyika,
central Africa
3. The Caspian sea – 1,025 meters (3,363 ft). It
is the largest enclosed inland body of water on
Earth by area, variously classed as the world’s
largest lake or a full-fledged sea.it has no
outflows and is bounded by Russia, Azerbaijan,
Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: The Caspian sea
4. Lake Vostok, Antartica – 900 meters (3000
ft). Lake is the largest of Antarctica’s almost
400 known subglacial lakes. The lake is located
beneath Russia’s Vostok Station under the
surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Lake Vostok,
Antartica
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5. Lake O’Higgins-San Martín, Chile & Argentina
– 836 meters (2,742 ft) deep. Located in
Patagonia, It has a surface area of 1,013 km and
a shoreline length of 525 km. Viewed from
above, the lake consists of a series of finger-
shaped flooded valleys, of which 554 km are in
Chile and 459 km in Argentina,
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Lake O’Higgins-
San Martín
6. Lake Malawi, ozambique, Tanzania, Malawi –
706 meters (2,316 ft). The third largest and
second deepest lake in Africa
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Lake Malawi
7. Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan – 668 meters (2,192 ft).
Although it is surrounded by snow-capped
peaks, Issyk Kul never freezes, hence its name,
which means “hot lake” in the Kyrgyz language
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Issyk Kul,
Kyrgyzstan
8. Great Slave Lake, Canada – 614 meters
(2,015 ft) – the deepest lake in North America
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Great Slave Lake,
Canada
9. Crater Lake, Oregon, United States – 594
meters (1,949 ft). The lake partly fills a nearly
2,148-foot (655 m) deep caldera that was formed
around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the
volcano Mount Mazama. It is kno
wn as one of
the most beautiful crater lakes in the world
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Carter Lake,
Oragon, United States
10. Matano, Indonesia – 590 meters (1,936 ft).
Also known as Matana, It is one of the two
major lakes in the Malili Lake system
10 Deepest Lakes In The World: Matano Lake
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