What Is The Deepest Lake In The World?
Crater Lake is the either the eighth, seventh or third-deepest lake in the world depending on the data being examined. On average Crater Lake ranks as the seventh deepest lake in the world, and is the deepest in the U.S. at 1,949 feet.
Crater Lake could rank eighth in the world with the recent discovery of sub-glacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, believed to be 2,133 feet deep.
The revised rankings are based on determining an average depth. Great Slave Lake in Canada, at 2,014 feet, is the deepest in North America. Great Slave has an average depth of about 226 feet based on surface area.
Crater Lake has an average depth of 1,148 feet. The deepest lake in the world, Baikal in Russia, has a maximum depth of 5,070 feet and an average depth of 2,350 feet. The second-deepest lake, Tanganyika, in Africa, has a maximum depth of about 4,550 feet and an average of 1,675 feet.
December 3, 2007 6:20 AM | Category: Technology