Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake.
It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is
miles deep. There are
trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.
I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.
a truly unique and magnificent Feature on our planet, as singular and fascinating as Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
in the words of farmboy, as you wish
the lake is quite cold, and as a result, these seals are very loaf
the babbeez are white poofs with lil eyebrowses
it is incredibly deep, and over a thousand species of plant and animal live ONLY there
