Top 10 Deepest Lakes In the World 2021

A lake is an area that is bigger than that of a pond and it is filled with water. It is generally localized in a basin and surrounded by landmass. Sometimes, a river serves the lake as a source of water. Also, rainfall and melting ice supply water to the lakes.

The area of the lakes varies over time due to several factors. The area of the world’s largest lakes fluctuates due to environmental changes from year to year. Also human activity can turn a massive body of water into a desert within a single generation.

No matter who you are or where you're from, odds are that you enjoy spending time at a beautiful lake. The largest lakes in the world aren’t only known for their enormous size. These lakes are more often visited for their rich flora and fauna, the outdoor activities and tours. These landlocked bodies of water are perfect for outdoor recreation and they truly come in almost all shapes and sizes. Largest lakes of world have many famous beaches of world. 

According to satellite data, there are roughly 100 million lakes larger than one hectare covering about 4% of the Earth's surface. The largest lakes, which are the size of entire nations. Canada has the most lakes of any country, but we know very little. This country has over 2 million lakes. There are countless lakes around the world. They can be found atop mountains, at sea level and everywhere in between.

Here are 10 of the deepest lakes of the world:

10. Matano :-

Lake Matano also known as Matana, is a natural lake, it is located in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi province,
Indonesia. It is the 10th deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 590 m. It is the deepest lake in Indonesia and the deepest lake on an island by maximum depth.

The surface elevation from mean sea level is only 382 m, which means that the deepest portion of the lake is below sea level. It is one of the two major lakes in the Malili Lake system.

9. Crater :-

Crater Lake is a crater lake located in south-central Oregon in the western United States. It is the ninth deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 594 m. It is also the deepest lake in usa.
It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a nearly 655 m caldera that was formed around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 250 years.

8. Great Slave :-

Great Slave Lake known as Tıdeè is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada after Great Bear Lake, the deepest lake in North America, with depth of 614 metres and the tenth-largest lake in the world.
It is 469 km long and 20 to 203 km wide.
It stretches over an area of 27,200 km² in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km³ to 2,088 km³ making it the 10th or 12th largest by volume.

7. Issyk-Kul :-

Issyk-Kul is an lake, it is located in the Northern Tian Shan mountains in Eastern Kyrgyzstan. It is the 7th deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 668 m. It is the tenth largest lake in the world by volume and the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea.

In the Kyrgyz language, Issyk-Kul means "warm lake", because it is surrounded by snow-capped peaks, it never freezes.

6. Malawi :-

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and known as Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is the 6th deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 706 m.

It is the fifth largest fresh water lake in the world by volume, the ninth largest
lake in the world by area—and the third largest and second deepest lake in
Africa. Lake Malawi is home to more species of fish than any other lake, including at least 700 species
of cichlids.

5. O'Higgins-San Martin :-

The lake known as O'Higgins in Chile and San Martín in Argentina, it is located in Patagonia, between the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region and the Santa Cruz Province. It is the 5th deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 836 m. Also the lake is the deepest in the Americas.
The lake is spread over surface area of 1,013 square kilometres, an elevation of 250 metres above mean sea level, and a shoreline length of 525 km. The lake is shared by Chile and Argentina, of which 554 km² area is in Chile and 459 km² area is in Argentina.

4. Vostok :-

Lake Vostok is the largest lake in Antarctica's almost 400 known subglacial lakes. Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is the 4th deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 1000 m.

The surface of this fresh water lake is approximately 4,000 m below the surface of the ice, which means it is approximately 500 m below sea level.
The lake is 250 km long by 50 km wide at its widest point. it covers an area of 12,500 km² making it the 16th largest lake by surface area. It has filled with estimated volume of 5,400 km³, making it the 6th largest lake by volume.

3. Caspian Sea :-

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is located between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia.
It is the 3rd deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 1,025 m.

The lake covers area of 371,000 km² and a volume of 78,200 km³. It is shared by by Kazakhstan from mid-north to mid-east, Russia from mid-north to mid-west, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south and adjacent corners, and Turkmenistan along southern parts of its eastern coast.
The sea stretches nearly 1,200 kilometres from north to south, with an average width of 320 km. The lake covers area of 386,400 km² and the surface is about 27 m below sea level. Its main freshwater inflow, Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters at the shallow north end.

2. Tanganyika :-

Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. Lake Tanganyika is located within the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, and is confined by the mountainous walls of the valley.
The lake is shared between four countries—Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Zambia, with Tanzania (46%) and DRC (40%) possessing the majority of the lake. It is the 2nd deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 1470 m.
It is the second-largest by volume, and the second-deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world's longest freshwater lake. It drains into the Congo River system and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.
The lake holds the greatest volume of fresh water, accounting for 16% of the world's available fresh water. It extends for 676 km in a general north-south direction and averages 50 km in width. The lake covers area of 32,900 km², with a shoreline of 1,828 km. It holds an estimated 18,900 km³.

1. Baikal :-

Lake Baikal, is a lake lies in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast. It is the deepest lake in the world, With a depth of 1,642 m. Also the bottom of the lake is 1,186.5 m below sea level.
The lake is 636 km long and 79 km wide. Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. The lake holds an estimated 23,615.39 km³ of fresh water, which is more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. It is the also the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. Lake Baikal is also the world's seventh-largest lake by surface area and largest surface area in Asia, with area of 31,722 km².
Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of them endemic to the region. It is also home to Buryat tribes, who raise goats, camels, cattle, sheep, and horses on the eastern side of the lake.