Our Movie!!

Here's a movie we made hope you enjoy!!

Nerpa Song

Here is a nerpa song about nerpas (those are the freshwater seals special to lake baikal.) Hope you enjoy.

Lake Baikal's Animals pictures

Baikal Seal

Siberian Chipmunk

Eurasian Lynx

Eurasian Red Squirrel

Wood Lemming

Brown Bear

Miscellaneous Facts

This lake is home to some of the world’s highest levels of biodiversity, with thousands of different species of fish and marine plants. Omul fish and Nerpa (Baikal Seal) are the most well known animals to be living in the lake and are also endemic, meaning they exist nowhere else in the world.This kind of biodiversity is put down to the lake’s large surface area and the ability for high levels of oxygen to be passed into the water to support life. Lake Baikal’s water is very clear because it contains very few minerals.

Lake Baikal Clip

Here is a video about Lake Baiakl

Modern Day Problems

Today, most of Lake Baikal is unharmed and beautiful. But neighboring towns are starting to dump their sewage into the lake. The pollution is killing off endangered species of fish. It is also destroying animals habitats and the native plants. There are around 1,500 plant and animal species that can only be found in Baikal, including the famous Baikal Seal. Some of the water is a mucky brown, immensely taking away from the beauty of the lake. We can only hope that the sewage dumping will be outlawed before it's too late.

Trash!!!!!!

Formation

Over millions of years smaller lakes formed in the big basin of Lake Baikal. These small lakes came from Mongolia and Zabaikal. There were over three hundred inflowing rivers. Lake Baikal is on a fault that is still active and it causes the water temperature to rise. As a result its highly unusual food web is reorganizing, as warmer water species of plankton become more widespread.

Measurements

Lake Baikal is in south-east Siberia. This is the deepest lake in the world at 1,741 m. Contains 20% of all fresh running water on the planet, making it the single largest body of water, containing 23,000 cubic kilometers. The lake is six hundred and forty kilometers long, seventy nine kilometers wide and is the world's largest volume of fresh water of twenty three thousand cubic km. The coastline is about 2,100 kilometers. Lake Baikal has an interesting shape because it is shaped like a banana.

A map of the lake.

Fun Facts

Lake Baikal contains 80-85% of Russia's freshwater.
Baikal has around 20% of the Earth's total freshwater.
Contains as much water as all of the Great Lakes combined.
Scientists think it is about 20-25 million years old.
You can see a white disc 40 meters down on a clear day.
People who have lived around Baikal for a long time can tell from which area of the lake a random stone came from.
Some Scientists predict that the land will split apart and form an ocean.
The coastline measures 2,100 kilometers.
It is the fifth largest lake in the world in terms of area.
27 islands were formed in Lake Baikal.
The lake is home to the second largest in-lake island in the world.
Holy Sea, Spiritual Waters, and Sacred Lake are names the Baikal natives call the lake.
The lake is growing about  one inch a year.

Movie

Here is a movie for you to watch! Hope you enjoy.

Temp

In the winter the temperature is around -6° Fahrenheit. In august the temperature is around 52° Fahrenheit. The Lake freezes over in January until May or June, when it thaws out. During winter people can take a short across the Frozen Lake. Hundreds of cross-country skiers, skaters and hikers enjoy the lake.

Animals

Baikal is one of the most biodiverse lake’s on Earth, with 1,340 species of animals.Some of the the animals in Lake Baikal include, European Roe Deer,Red Deer, Black Stork,Peregrine Falcon, Wolverine, Red Grouse,Eurasian Lynx,Sable,Wood Lemming,Spotted Nutcracker,Grey Partridge, Reindeer,Adams' Rhododendron, Eurasian Red Squirrel, Siberian Chipmunk,Black Grouse, and the Brown Bear. The only freshwater seal in the world, the Baikal Seal most likely came to Baikal through an ancient river. The golomyanka is a very small fish that lives in Baikal. It lives deep, where there is so much pressure that a cannon cannot fire

Baikal Seal

Eurasian Red Squirrel

Eurasian Lynx

What This is

This blog is to teach you all about Lake Baikal. I hope you learn a lot! Thanks again and be sure to check out more of our posts!