Презентация, доклад по теме Озеро Байкал

world. It contains 20 % of all fresh running water on the planet, making it the single largest reservoir.

is 744.4metres. It is the second most voluminous lake after the Caspian Sea.

between Irkutsk region to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.

typical long crescent shape with a surface area of 31722 sq km

animals, two third of which can be found nowhere else in the world and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

text. It was situated in the then Xiongnu territory. Very little was known to Europeans about the lake until the Russian expansion into the area in the 17th century. The first Russian explorer to reach Lake Baikal was Kurbat Ivanov in 1643

1340 species of animal and 570 species of plant.

islands and steppes is exceptionally picturesque.

the north shore and the taiga are protected as a national park. It contains 27 islands; the largest, Olkhon, is 72 km long and the third-largest lake-bound island in the world.

thirty inflowing rivers. The main ones are the Selenga River, the Barguzin River, The Upper River, the Turka River, The Sarma River and the Snezhnaya River. It is drained through a single river, the Angara River. It is named the daughter of Baikal. Do you know the legend about Angara?