Which is the only freshwater lake in the world containing sea fish ?
Lake Superior, which borders the United States and Canada, is the largest freshwater lake in the world, covering an area of 31,760 square miles. Only the Caspian Sea, the world's largest saltwater lake, has a larger surface area. The Caspian Sea is more than four times the size of Lake Superior.
Lake Superior is part of a freshwater system known as the Great Lakes, which also includes Lakes Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. In total, these lakes are the largest system of fresh surface water in the world and contain 21 percent of the world's freshwater supply.
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The deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia, with a bottom at 1,637 m (5,371 ft). Its mean depth is also the highest in the world (749 m)
It is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume (23,000 km), and the second longest (about 630 km from tip to tip).
The longest freshwater lake is Lake Tanganyika, with a length of about 660 km (measured along the lake's center line).
It is also the second deepest in the world (1,470 m) after lake Baikal.
The world's oldest lake is Lake Baikal, followed by Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania).
The world's highest lake is an unnamed pool on Ojos del Salado at 6,390 metres (20,965 ft). The Lhagba Pool in Tibet at 6,368 m (20,892 ft) comes second.
The world's highest commercially navigable lake is Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia at 3,812 m (12,507 ft). ...more