What is the deepest lake in the world, according to the Lake Baikal article?

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, reaching about 1,642 metres.

Located in southern Siberia, Russia, Baikal is also the world’s oldest existing freshwater lake, with an estimated age of roughly 25 million years. It formed in an active continental rift zone, where the Earth’s crust is pulling apart and creating a deep basin.

Baikal contains about 20% of the world’s unfrozen surface freshwater, a remarkable figure for a single lake. It is also famous for endemic wildlife, including the Baikal seal, the only seal species living exclusively in fresh water.

Lake Tanganyika is the second-deepest lake, while Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area. Those different records are often confused because size, depth, and water volume are separate measurements.