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	Baikal tours in Siberia, travel lake Baikal
		Travel to Eastern Siberia region and to lake Baikal.
		Trans-siberia adventure tours and baikal lake travel at baikal area, siberia, russia.
		Siberian dog-sledding in deep taiga and on Baikal ice as the additional winter adventure activity during the sightseeing tour to Listvyanka village.
	www.baikalex.com (472 words)

	Russia / Exploring Siberia / Baikal
		On the merits of magnitude alone the lake is renowned as one of the earth's most impressive natural wonders, and rightfully so--Baikal is so large that all of the rivers on earth combined would take an entire year to fill it.
		The lake region is home to an enormous variety of plants and animals, most of which--like nerpas,the lake's freshwater seals, and its trademark delicacy, the omul salmon-- are found nowhere else in the world.
		Lake Baikal long ago became famous for the purity of its waters and surrounding shores, a pristine state that had been seriously threatened by planned industrial development in recent years.
	www.geographia.com /russia/baikal01.htm (433 words)

	USGS Fact Sheet: Lake Baikal - A Touchstone for Global Change and Rift Studies
		Lake Baikal is to Russia what the Grand Canyon is to the United States: a magnificent natural resource that instills national pride and awe.
		Understanding the origin of the Lake Baikal rift contributes to understanding one of the fundamental phenomena by which the history of the Earth is reconstructed.
		Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake on Earth containing 23,000 cubic kilometers of water, or roughly 20 percent of the world's total surface fresh water.
	marine.usgs.gov /fact-sheets/baikal (852 words)

	Facts about Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lake Baikal is between 51 29'N and 55 46'N latitude and 103 41'E and 109 57'E longitude.
		Baikal's water, long famous for its spiritual and medicinal qualities, is called "living water." Unlike all other deep lakes of the world where the lower depths are dead, asphyxiated by hydrogen sulfide and other gases, Lake Baikal's deep waters are blanketed in fresh oxygen.
		Lake Baikal's ecosystem was greatly altered by the construction of the Irkutsk Dam.
	www.baikal.eastsib.ru /baikalfacts (2270 words)

	Photo Project "Lake Baikal"
		Lake Baikal is known as a unique self-contained aquatic ecosystem which provides comfortable home for flora and fauna that are endemic (unique to the particular geographic location), found nowhere else on the planet.
		Baikal's maximum depth is 1,637 meters; its area of the surface is 31,500 square kilometers, which approximates the size of Belgium or Netherlands.
		The man was dumbfounded by the view of Baikal for it could not be fathomed by man's notion: Baikal was not situated in a place where something like this could be, it was not what it could be, and it affected the human soul differently than the "indifferent" nature usually does.
	www.mnsi.net /~hekate/lakebaikal/baikal.htm (422 words)

	Information on Lake Baikal
		Lake Baikal, located in eastern Siberia, has loomed large in the cultural consciouness of Russians since the first Russian explorers caught sight of it in the late sixteenth century.
		For Siberian citizens, Baikal continues to be a daily source of pride, a physical and psychological refuge from the bitterness of Communist-era and Post-Communist sufferings.
		To treat the lake solely as a glorified test-tube would be as foolish as worshipping it as a kind of New Age deity.
	www.wellesley.edu /Russian/Baikal/baik_info.html (648 words)

	Lake Baikal, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lake Baikal, or "Sacred Sea," is located in southeastern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, Russia.
		The deepest point in Lake Baikal is 1637 m, the average depth being 630 m, and it has an exceptional clarity which allows 40-50 m of visibility.
		Lake Baikal is home to 1200 different species of animals, and 1000 species of plants.
	www.livinglakes.org /baikal (1189 words)

	Northern Baikal area - The Northern part of Lake Baikal
		The spirit of Baikal is something very special, existing and making one believe in old legends and think with mystic apprehension over the ability of a person do whatever he or she wants to do in certain places on the globe.
		Indeed Baikal water is the water of life: from the surface down to the bottom it accomodated a magnitude of diverse life forms.
		In comparison with many other deep lakes of the world, the water of which is lifeless in their lower layers (they are poisoned by hydrogene sulphide and other gases), the water of Lake Baikal is highly saturated with oxygene.
	www.sbaikal.ru /eng/baikal/index.htm (1104 words)

	WWF - Lake Baikal - A Global Ecoregion
		The nerpa's presence in Lake Baikal indicates that the ecoregion was once connected to the Arctic Ocean, possibly by a large river that no longer exists.
		Among the lake's many habitats are recently discovered hydrothermal vents at a depth of about 400 meters that support sponges, bacterial mats, snails, transparent shrimp, and fish.
		Lake Baikal's fish are distinguished by a "flock" of 36 species in the sculpin family Cottidae, an endemic family (Comephoridae), and distinct stocks of Coregonus, Thymallus, and Lota species.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/lake_baikal.cfm (372 words)

	The Divine Comedy: Lake Baikal's Vanishing Nerpa Seal
		Lake Baikal, known locally as the diamond of Siberia, forms an immense sickle-shaped scar on the earth almost 700 kilometers long and up to 70 kilometers wide, so large that it can be seen from space.
		Baikal is as mind-boggling in size and as contradictory in character as the lands that surround it.
		The lake accounts for an astonishing 20 percent of the world's fresh water and is home to more than 2,500 different plant and animal species, four-fifths of them unique to Baikal.
	www.geocities.com /thedivine_comedy/news/lakebaikal.html (2442 words)

	LAKE BAIKAL
		The lake is indeed old: clay samples taken in 1990 show that Lake Baikal is at least 30 million years old, making it the world's oldest lake, while few lakes in the world are more than a mere 30,000 years.
		Lake Baikal is almost 700 kilometers from end to end and its shoreline extends 2,000 kilometers.
		Lake Baikal is a self-contained aquatic ecosystem, home to more than 1,500 endemic species found no where else on earth.
	archive.greenpeace.org /forests/russia/wheritbaikal.html (363 words)

	Lake Baikal Pollution
		Description Lake Baikal, the Pearl of Siberia or the Sacred Sea, is referred to as "Ye glorious sea, ye sacred Baikal" in an old Siberian song.
		Baikal is the oldest, largest, and most unique (species-wise) lake in the world.(3) Plans for the paper mill at Baikalsk began in 1954.
		Lake Baikal is currently a test area to determine the extent of the spread of manmade pollutants.
	www.american.edu /ted/baikal.htm (2161 words)

	An introduction to Baikal lake -- WayToRussia.Net
		Baikal is considered to be a future ocean; in several million years there will be a new great ocean all over Asia and Baikal is a starting point for this ocean.
		Baikal is one of the oldest lakes on the earth, the lake is considered to be 25-30 Mln years old.
		The area of Baikal lake is a highly seismic zone with the frequent earthquakes (usually there is a big earthquake once a two years).
	www.waytorussia.net /Siberia/Baikal/Baikal.html (2005 words)

	GNF - Lake Baikal
		Lake Baikal is located in the south of Siberia, near the Russian- Mongolian border.
		The wastewater from a paper plant built in Baikalsk on the south shore of the lake in the 1960s is considered the major source to pollution in the lake.
		The collapse of the Soviet Union led to economic crisis and the people living near Lake Baikal, in their struggle of life, understandingly (but unsustainably) put aside the protection of nature and environment in favour of creating jobs.
	www.globalnature.org /docs/02_vorlage.asp?id=11395&domid=1011&sp=E&addlastid=&m1=11089&m2=11093&m3=11178&m4=11395 (293 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The core area of the nomination is the Lake Baikal itself and the land from 5km to 70km surrounding it.
		The Lake Baikal Coastal Protection Zone was established in 1987 by the Decision 434 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR with the aim of protecting Lake Baikal's shores through protection of the forests.
		It is dedicated primarily to the protection of Lake Baikal by creating a central protection zone around the Lake and buffer zones on the watershed basin, control of waste disposal, industry and a complete ban on logging in the sub-coastal zone.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/baikal.htm (2258 words)

	Lake Baikal Summary
		Most controversial to the people who depend on this lake for their livelihood and pleasure, however, was the construction of a large cellulose plant at the southern end near the city of Baikalsk in 1957.
		Lake Baikal is the deepest and oldest lake in the world and the largest (by volume) freshwater lake on Earth.
		The lake is fed by some 300 inflowing rivers, the six main ones being Selenga, the source of some of Baikal's pollution, Chikoy, Khiloh, Uda, Barguzin and Upper Angara, and is drained through a single outlet, the Angara River.
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Baikal (1741 words)

	The Oddities of Lake Baikal, Alaska Science Forum
		Lake Baikal lies in a rift valley--a place where the earth's crust is pulling apart.
		The section of Asia lying northwest of the lake is pulling away from the part to the southeast at the rate of two centimeters (about three-quarters of an inch) a year.
		Lake Baikal is at least a thousand times older, and the highend estimates go to 50 million years.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF9/986.html (773 words)

	Lake Baikal \| Greenpeace Russia
		Lake Baikal is one of the greatest lakes on the planet, a lake of "superlative degrees".
		The climate of the Baikal shores is amazingly mild compared to the typically rigorous Siberian climate.
		Destruction of wild animals' habitats in the catchment area of Lake Baikal resulting from construction activities, excessive impact of recreation and withdrawal of land from National Parks and reserves.
	www.greenpeace.org /russia/en/campaigns/world-natural-heritage/lake-baikal (446 words)

	Lake Baikal - The Jewel of Siberia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake believed to be between 25 and 50 MILLION years old.
		Most lakes fill with sediment in about 20,000 years, but Baikal has survived because it is on a geological rift that grows nearly an inch a year - enough to accommodate the silt and animal remains that drift to the bottom.
		Baikal is more like an inland sea than lake, with the world's only species of freshwater seals, a complex system of self-purification and hot water vents that nurture life in the deep.
	www.ccaej.org /projects/lakebaikal.htm (4638 words)

	Lake Baikal Homepage - Everything about the lake Baikal
		One of the biggest and most ancient lakes of world is situated nearly in the center of Asia in a huge stone bowl set 445 m above sea level.
		Everyone who has been to its shores is impressed and charmed by the grandeur, size, and unusual might of this Siberian miracle of nature.
		Brown bears at lake Baikal shores in spring
	www.irkutsk.org /baikal (177 words)

	Irkutsk & Lake Baikal :: White Nights Travel
		By far the most popular stop for journeys on the Trans-Siberian is Irkutsk, and nearby Lake Baikal, holding 20% of the earth’s fresh water, more than all five of the Great Lakes of North America combined.
		Perhaps the most mysteriously beautiful place on Lake Baikal is its biggest island, Olkhon Island, accessible by bus from Irkutsk (homestay available).
		During summer, hydrofoils crisscross Lake Baikal, connecting Irkutsk with Severobaikalsk on the lake's northern shore.
	www.wnights.com /journeys/russia/irkutsk_and_lake_baikal (351 words)

	CNN--InDepth: Russia Election
		The Lake Baikal shoreline also is home to a growing number of industries, including a controversial pulp and paper mill on the southern coast.
		Lake Baikal and the ancient village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye
		It was only in the unpolluted atmosphere of Lake Baikal, she decided, that her daughter could live a normal life.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/russia/story/train/lake.baikal (1029 words)

	Baikal Web World - lake Baikal seals
		Baikal is one of the few continental reservoirs inhabited by "nerpa" (the Baikal seal).
		Lake Baikal forms an ideal habitat for nerpa - plentiful food, mainly golomyanka fish and bullheads; an ice regime that creates the optimum conditions for nerpa's breeding and moult cycle, and rather large and deep water body.
		In winter time, when the lake is covered by the thick layer of ice, the seal makes holes in the ice by its sharp claws.
	www.bww.irk.ru /baikalseals/baikalseals.html (725 words)

	Lake Baikal - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Situated 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.
		The Committee inscribed Lake Baikal as the most outstanding example of a freshwater ecosystem on the basis of natrual criteria (vii), (viii), (ix) and (x).
		It is the oldest and deepest of the world´s lakes containing nearly 20% of the world´s unfrozen freshwater reserve.
	whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=754 (272 words)

	Lake Baikal
		Lake Baikal, which is in Siberia, is the world's oldest lake (over 20 million years) and holds 20 per cent of the world's surface freshwater.
		In 1991, an international agreement called the Baikal International Centre for Ecological Research (BICER) was formed by organisations from six countries (Russia, Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, USA, UK) with the Royal Society as the UK founding member.
		The Society has been supporting research on Lake Baikal since 1992 when it became a founding member of BICER which is based at the Limnological Institute in Irkutsk, Siberia.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=2332 (284 words)

	Tahoe-Baikal Institute: Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal Watersheds
		In reality the scientific linkage between the two lakes provides ample opportunity for comparison while the impacts of industrialization at Baikal and urban development at Tahoe provide compelling evidence environmental concerns must be balanced with economic and social concerns.
		Lake Baikal is the world's largest (in volume), deepest, and oldest freshwater lake.
		Whereas the Lake Tahoe basin is made up of lands adjoining California and Nevada, Lake Baikal is surrounded by three distinct territories within Russia; the Irkutsk Region, the Autonomous Republic of Buryatia, and the Chita Region.
	www.tahoebaikal.org /lakeinfo (508 words)

	TIME Europe :: European Journey 2005 :: Lake Baikal
		The bears emerge from hibernation in late May, the ice on the lake melts at the beginning of June, and even well into the month there is still snow on the Barguzin Ridge and the other mountains that rise 2,000 m and more over the lake.
		The pastures by the lake are a rich green, sprinkled with blue, white and pink wildflowers.
		Our sojourn started and ended on Olkhon, the lake's largest island, and in between we wandered the more northerly reaches of the lake on a 23-m-long fishing boat, guided by the vessel's owner, Alexander (Sasha) Burmeister, who was born and brought up on Baikal.
	www.time.com /time/europe/wonder/baikal.html (2606 words)

	Lake Baikal Blues (washingtonpost.com)
		At this time of year the lake is a grayish blue, and from the flat southern shore, the hazy sky turns the mountains in the distance into dark protrusions into the horizon.
		Baikal is home to 1,500 species, two-thirds of them unique, most lovably the Baikal seal or nerpa, whose presence suggests that this is as much an ocean as a lake.
		A law on Baikal passed by the Duma in Moscow in 1998 bans the burning of coal in power plants around the lake to limit acid rain and air pollution.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A20140-2001Aug16 (1898 words)

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