Top 6 Deepest Lakes In The World

Deep lakes have become a crucial ecosystem for all living creatures as they are full of mankind's imagination. It is home to unique mystic creatures or even lost treasures that have never been found.

With the advancement of technology, mankind has managed to make use of various tools to discover what lies beneath the deep abyss. Here we would like to share with you the top 6 deepest lakes in the world.

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6. Nyasa Lake (706 Meters)

Nyasa Lake or also known as Malawi lake happens to be a very long and tight lake that stretches across the border of Mozambique, Tanzania, and Malawi. It is 560 km in length with so many biodiversities due to its depths, length, and also layered temperatures that exist in different environments.

It has been reported that around 1,000 species of fish live in this lake which is comprised 15% of the total freshwater species in the world. A big portion of them comes from the Cichlid family.

5 O' Higgins/ San Martín Lake (836 Meters)

This lake has two names it is known as O'Higgins in Chile and San Martín in Argentina. It is a lake situated at a low-density population of Patagonian Andes in the Southern American continent. It is perhaps the least-known lake on this list.

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The water flows between the border of Chile and Argentina from the O'Higgins Glacier from the west. The limestone that is found in this lake gave it a blue-ocean color.

4. Vostok Lake (900 Meters)

The Vostok Lake that is found in Antarctica is very unique compared to the rest as it is found deep within the ice going for 4 km in depth. It is also the biggest subglacial lake in the world.

It is believed that the water takes thousands of years to pass through this lake. Ever since 1970, scientists suspected the high presence of fresh water beneath the ice. However, in 1996 scientists from Russia and Britain managed to determine the true value of the freshwater using a radar that can detect through the ice.

The activities and lives within the lake remain a mystery since there were no ways to collect any samples as mankind has yet to find a method to put sensors into the thick ice.

But in 2012, a group of scientists drilled to the bottom of the lake and a study of the samples taken from the lake proved that there are many new bacterias in the lake.

3. Caspian Sea (1,025 Meters)

The biggest lake in the world as most will call it the Caspian Sea has a depth of 1,025 meters that is found between the Caucasus mountains and the grassland of Central Asia. It stretches across 1,200 km from the north to the south and has a width of 320 km.

This lake is surrounded by several countries including Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. The northern part of this lake is very shallow with an average depth of 6 meters.

If you wish to visit the deepest part of the lake, then that will be the southern part which has an average depth of 300 meters. The Caspian Sea plays a crucial role as the country's source of the economy through commercial fishery and tourism.

Oil and gas can are also extracted from this lake from many offshore platforms.

2. Tanganyika Lake (1,436 Meters)

This is the second deepest lake in the world found in the Albertine Rift of Eastern Africa and surrounded by mountains and valleys. This lake is located on the borders of Zambia, Burundi, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo.

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Similar to Nyasa Lake, this one is also long and tight with various species living here. Ever since the stone age, the community of people lived by the lake as they thrived by fishing in this very lake.

But due to overfishing in the 1950s, there have been fewer species of fish found in the lake lately.

1. Baikal Lake (1,620 Meters)

With around 20% of uncontaminated freshwater on this earth, the Baikal Lake has been recognized as the deepest lake in the world. This lake is also the oldest freshwater lake in the world which is estimated to be 20 to 25 million years old.

Baikal lake serves as a habitat for thousands of species living here one of which includes the Baikal seal also known as nerpa. This animal is one of the species of seals that lived in freshwater. It still remains a mystery how its ancestors came to Baikal Lake.

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• Sentiasapanas

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