Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 1996 som naturarv i Russian Federation. Platsen hör till regionen Europe and North America.

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UNESCOSituated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science.