Baikal's beauty has been holding the championship for many years. Let's learn about its deepest bays.
The Geneva Convention formulated the concept of “bay” - a clearly expressed hollow near the shore, such a size compared to the size of the mouth, so that the water of the bay was framed by land from almost all sides. The bay is covered with the coast from the wind from any side.
Which bay on Lake Baikal is the deepest?
There are six background of impressive sizes on Lake Baikal.
The greatest - Barguzinsky, with an area of \u200b\u200b725 km².
The Barguzinsky Bay is also the deepest - its bottom is located at a distance of 1 km 284 m from the surface of the water. This is one of the most picturesque bays in Lake Baikal - it “crashes” into the mainland by almost 30 km, its width between the extreme southern point of Cape Lower and Cross Cape, is about 20 km. Here, Zaton is deepened by approximately a kilometer, then the bottom level rises higher, and in the area of \u200b\u200bthe mouth of the Barguzin River, it becomes 1 m.
In terms of depth level, the largest Baikal bays are located in a slightly different order. After the Barguzinsky Gulf, the Chivyrkuyskoye should also be on the list, with a depth of 10 m, behind it is a failure, the largest depth of which is 6 m, then Mukhor is 4-5 m, the Ambassador (the deepest place-3.5 m) and completes the list of shallow water Bay Cherkalov, whose depth does not exceed 1 m.
Video: Barguzinsky Bay
