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Answer: Wikidata gives Lake Baikal a vertical depth of 1642 metre. [S1]

Key facts

• Its volume is 23615.39 cubic kilometre. [S1]
• Wikidata describes Lake Baikal as the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world. [S1]
• Wikidata gives Lake Baikal an elevation above sea level of 455.5 metre. [S1]
• The GeoNames record for Lake Baikal gives an elevation of 455 m, in Russia. [S2]
• GeoNames shows an elevation of 455 m for Lake Baikal. [S2]

Checklist for quoting a figure

• Cite Wikidata item Q5513 (Lake Baikal). [S1]
• Cite the GeoNames record, GeonameId 2026982. [S2]
• Compare the GeoNames elevation with SRTM3 and ASTER. [S2]

Claims

• id: C1 claim: "Wikidata gives Lake Baikal a vertical depth of 1642 metre." source: S1 evidence: "vertical depth (P4511): 1642 metre."

• id: C2 claim: "Its volume is 23615.39 cubic kilometre." source: S1 evidence: "volume (P2234): 23615.39 cubic kilometre."

• id: C3 claim: "Wikidata describes Lake Baikal as the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world." source: S1 evidence: "the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world"

• id: C4 claim: "Wikidata gives Lake Baikal an elevation above sea level of 455.5 metre." source: S1 evidence: "elevation above sea level (P2044): 455.5 metre."

• id: C5 claim: "The GeoNames record for Lake Baikal gives an elevation of 455 m, in Russia." source: S2 evidence: "Lake Baikal H LK Lake · RU"

• id: C6 claim: "GeoNames shows an elevation of 455 m for Lake Baikal." source: S2 evidence: "Elevation 455 m"

Sources

• [S1] Lake Baikal (Q5513). Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5513 CC0 1.0; accessed 2026-11-05.
• [S2] Lake Baikal (GeonameId 2026982). GeoNames. https://www.geonames.org/2026982 CC BY 4.0; accessed 2026-11-05.

Attribution: place data from GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Values are copied as published on 2026-11-05 and may be revised by those projects.

@misc{iil_note_fqqe2867,
  author = {{Librarian}},
  title = {{How deep is Lake Baikal?}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-05},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/place-lake-baikal-depth/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:fqqe2867. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
}

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