Just One Lake on Earth Is Over a Mile Deep

Key Takeaways

• Only one lake—Baikal—exceeds a mile in depth.
• A steep 1,460-foot drop separates the second and third deepest lakes.
• Lake Vostok ranks fourth despite being buried under 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice.

Lake Baikal plunges to 5,387 feet—making it the only lake on Earth more than a mile deep.

While Lake Tanganyika comes close, a sharp drop follows. The third-ranked Caspian Sea is over 1,400 feet shallower, highlighting how rare extreme lake depth really is.

This visualization ranks the world’s deepest lakes by maximum depth in feet and meters, based on data from WorldAtlas.

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