Loch Baikal
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| Location | Siberie, Roushie |
| Coordinates | 53°30′N 108°0′E / 53.500°N 108.000°ECoordinates: 53°30′N 108°0′E / 53.500°N 108.000°E |
| Loch teep | Continental rift lake |
| Primary inflows | Selenge, Barguzin, Upper Angara |
| Primary outflows | Angara |
| Catchment aurie | 560,000 km2 (216,000 sq mi) |
| Basin kintras | Roushie an Mongolie |
| Max. lenth | 636 km (395 mi) |
| Max. with | 79 km (49 mi) |
| Surface aurie | 31,722 km2 (12,248 sq mi)[1] |
| Average deepth | 744.4 m (2,442 ft)[1] |
| Max. deepth | 1,642 m (5,387 ft)[1] |
| Watter vollum | 23,615.39 km3 (5,700 cu mi)[1] |
| Residence time | 330 years[2] |
| Shore lenth1 | 2,100 km (1,300 mi) |
| Surface elevation | 455.5 m (1,494 ft) |
| Frozen | Januar–Mey |
| Islands | 27 (Olkhon) |
| Dounsets | Irkutsk |
| 1 Shore lenth is no a well-defined measur. | |
Loch Baikal (Roushie: о́зеро Байка́л; Buryat: Байгал нуур, Mongolian: Байгал нуур, Baygal nuur, meanin "naitur loch";[3]) is a rift loch in Roushie, locatit in soothren Siberie, atween Irkutsk Oblast tae the northwast an the Buryat Republic tae the sootheast.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "A new bathymetric map of Lake Baikal. MORPHOMETRIC DATA. INTAS Project 99-1669.Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Consolidated Research Group on Marine Geosciences (CRG-MG), University of Barcelona, Spain; Limnological Institute of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russian Federation; State Science Research Navigation-Hydrographic Institute of the Ministry of Defense, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation". Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Retrieved 9 Julie 2009.
- ↑ M.A. Grachev. "On the present state of the ecological system of lake Baikal". Lymnological Institute, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 Julie 2009.
- ↑ Altangerel Damdinsuren, English to Mongolian Dictionary (1998) Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals, London, John Murray, page 173
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