Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal. Lakes are defined as considerable inland bodies of freshwater. The Caspian Sea is considered by scholars to be the largest lake in the world.
However, it has a salinity about one third of the oceans. The black sea is sometimes considered to be a lake but its salinity is about 60 percent of the oceans. Lake Baikal has
more water volume than all of the Great Lakes combined.
The largest freshwater lake (by area) is Lake Superior. The largest lake by volume and the deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Russia.
The largest freshwater lake (by area) is Lake Superior. The largest lake by volume and the deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Russia.
Lake Tanganyika is the largest rift lake in Africa. It is also Africa's deepest lake. However, Lake Victoria is the largest lake by area in Africa.
It is none of those, if the world as a whole is considered. It is, however, the deepest lake in the US, and if average (rather than maximum) depth is considered, it's the deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere.
Baikal, is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, and the deepest.
The deepest of the Great Lakes is Lake Superior.deepest pointSuperior=1,333 ft. Michigan=923 ft.Huron=750 ft.Erie =210 ft.Ontario= 802 ft.
Lake Superior
Lake Baikal is the deepest oldest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake by volume.
It is Crater Lake in Oregon. At 1,943 feet deep (590m), it is the seventh deepest lake in the world, and the deepest in the US. It is the basin of an erupted volcano, so the water has no inlet, or outlet. It is also considered to have the clearest water of any lake in the world.
Crater Lake is the deepest lake in Oregon.
The largest lake in Central Asia is Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is in Siberia at the Russian city of Irkutsk. Lake Baikal contains the most freshwater by volume and is the deepest on Earth.
Crater lake is the deepest lake in the US. It is Oregons lake.