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Baikal, the world’s deepest lake and one of the largest, stretches like a giant crescent 636 km long and up to 80 km wide amidst mountains on the north-eastern borders of Central Asia, at an altitude of 455.6 m above the Pacific level. Covering an area of 31,500 km2, Baikal ranks seventh in the world after the Caspian and Aral seas, the North-American lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior and Lake Victoria in Africa.
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Kozhov, M. (1963). Geography and Hydrology of Baikal. In: Lake Baikal and Its Life. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7388-7_2
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