World Record Title: The deepest lake: Lake Baikal
World Record Creator: Lake Baikal
World Record Holder: Lake Baikal
World Record Fields: The deepest lake
World Record Rules: The deepest lake
World Record Number: 20120500016
World Record Validity Period: Until the world record was broken.
World Record Witness: Carrying the Flag World Records certifier 008
World Records Source: World record library to Carrying the Flag
Awarding Certificate Date: May 5, 2012
World Record Details:

         The deepest lake: Lake Baikal. Maximum depth: about 1680 m. Lake Baikal is the world's deepest and largest freshwater storage capacity. Located in Buryatia (Buryatiya) and Irkutsk State (Irkutsk) territory. Lake-type narrow curved, like a crescent moon, so there are "Mondsee" said. It is long 636 km and an average width of 48 km, maximum width 79.4 kilometers, an area 55,700 square kilometers, with an average depth of 744 meters, the deepest point of 1,680 meters, the lake elevation of 456 meters. Baikal lake clarity chilly, and a stable and transparent (transparency up to 40.8m), is second in the world. The total storage capacity of 23,600 cubic kilometers, there are 1000 to 2000 meters on both sides of the cliffs surrounded. Around Lake Baikal, a total size of 336 rivers flow into the lake, the largest is the Selenga, and outflow from the lake is only Angara River, the average annual flow of only 1,870 cubic meters / sec. Note Ruanjiala where the river water and a width of 1000 m or more, Bailangtaotian. Lake Baikal is surrounded by mountains structural gaps, these mountains height of over 2500 meters. This lake bottom sediment thickness of more than 8 kilometers. That is why Lake Baikal crevices actual depth of 10 to 11 kilometers. This depth may be the world's oceans with the deepest Mariana Trench comparable.