Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Global ten famous lakes (2)

6. Lake Baikal (Russia): The deepest and the most ancient lake in the world

Known as “eye of the Siberia”, Baikal Lake located at the Russian Siberia south, the total water volume is more than five great lake's sum total in North America. 1637 meters depths also cause it to reach in the world the deep lake throne. Although the water volume is only 1/3 of the Caspian Sea (salt water lake), it is actually the biggest fresh water reservoir in the world, the fresh water quantity approximately composes to the whole world 20%. Baikal Lake has 1700 kinds of zoology and botany, 2/3 are the locality unique. 250,000,000 year life also causes it to become the most ancient lake in the world. In 1996, it was listed as the world culture inheritance by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

7. Kakahu (Bolivian and Peruvian border): The world is highest may drive ship's lake

Kakahu located at Bolivian and the Peruvian border, the elevation is 3812 meters, is the world highest lake which can drives ship. The total water volume is the biggest in South America; the water source comes from rainfall as well as the peripheral plateau's iceberg.

8. The Caspian Sea (Russia): The world biggest lake

About the Caspian Sea, the world biggest lake, we may know through some data. Its water storage quantity, occupies the world lake water total quantity 40% to 44%, the waters area is 394299 square kilometers that is bigger than those six lakes listed after it.

9. Crater lake (US): World most limpid lake

The Crater Lake, as the name suggests, is the volcanic eruption forms by American Oregon Ma Zhama, looks like the Changbai Mountain Tianchi which we knew very well. Before approximately 7000 years, after Ma Zhama volcanic eruption, avalanche, has left behind the Crater Lake. After the lava cools, has sealed up the volcano bottom, thus has formed a large-scale bowl-shaped crater. Year after year, in the crater filled up 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons rainfalls and the melted snow, thus it also became the American deepest lake.

10. Kara Sea (Russia): the most seriously polluted lake

South the Russian western Ural sierra has a small lake named Kara Sea. From 1951, is used by former Soviet Union to piling up nuclear trash from the Orr Sika city. The international nuclear waste observation committee once pointed out that this lake is the most serious polluted region on the Earth; the nuclear radiation intensity is 4.44, while the nuclear intensity of site around Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station is about 5 to 12, and obviously the nuclear pollution here is quite serious.

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