At a little over a mile deep, Russia ’s 25-million-year-old Lake Baikal is the deepest and oldest lake in the world. It is also the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, holding 20 percent of the planet’s unfrozen fresh water.
(Source: UNESCO)
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