Tunnel 18 on the Circumbaikal Railway

One Mile Deep

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June 26th 2012
That's the deepest part of Lake Baikal located in the middle of Siberia where I spent the last couple of weeks after St. Petersburg and Moscow. The average depth is over 2000' easily making it the world's deepest and most voluminous lake. The pictures do not it justice as it the lake is gigantic. Now in Krasnoyarsk well west of Lake Baikal but still in Siberia. $1US ≈ 33p. (Russian rubles) [h2 ... read more

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