^Famous Lakes Of The World^

There are many lakes in this world, but not all of them are famous. We all know about the Caspian Sea, which is indeed one of the most famous lakes in the world. May be some people don't know that its not a sea but a lake and a salt water lake. Lakes are fresh water bodies that are enclosed by land from all sides the primary difference between a lake and a river is that, rivers are connected to a sea and some how end up in it. Lakes how ever have no place to go, they can be fed, by stream coming out of melting glaciers, or rivers.

Lake Baikal

 Lake Baikal, in term of volume, stands on second and, in terms of depth; stands on first in world’s lakes. This lake is located in Russia (province Irkutsk), republic of Buryatia and eastern part of Siberia.

In measurements, this lake is 1741 meters deep (5315 ft), covers an area of 31494 sq kilo meters (12160 square miles) and has a volume of 22995 ICU km (18760 ICU miles). On a rough estimate this lakes provides world’s 20% of fresh water.

Lake Tanganyika

Tanganyika is a fresh water lake in Africa. According to estimates this lake is second deepest (1471 meters, 4825 miles) and fifth largest (32,893 sq km, 12700 sq miles) and third greatest volume lake (17800 cubic kilometers, 4270 cubic miles)in the world.
This lake makes a boundary between Tanzania and Congo. This lake also divides eastern and western Africa.

Lake Superior

Superior is largest among all five lakes of North America. To south, it is bounded by Michigan and Wisconsin and to north; it is bounded by Minnesota and Canadian province Ontario.
This lake is considered as one of largest water surface fresh water lake among all. Its volume is 12100 cubic kilometers which is approximately equals to 2903 cubic miles.

Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is largest reservoir of river Nile. Victoria is one of the African great lakes, it is also known as Victoria Nyanza, Sango, Lolwe and Nalubalee.

This lake is mainly in Uganda and Tanzania but borders ar Kenya.

This lake has more than 200 species of fishes among which Talipia is most important from economical point of view. The area of Lake Victoria is 69,485 sq km (26,828 sq miles).

Great Slave Lake

Great slave is second largest fresh lake, after Great Bear Lake, in Canada (Northwest Territories).
This lake has a depth of 614 meters, approximately equals to 2015 feet and is deepest lake in North America and one of the top ten deepest lakes of the world.
This lake is named after on the name of Slavey North American Indian. This lake has small fishing industry for trout and whitefish and has many small islands in it.

Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa, is in east Africa and one of and third among largest East African Rift Valley Lakes.In 1616, a Portuguese, named Casper Boccaro, reported this lake, and the person who reach here first by south in 1859 was a British explorer named David Living Stone.The volume of this lake is 8400 km³ (approx. 2015 miles³).