Lake Baikal

Olkhon Island in Lake BaikalLake Baikal is like a little reverse-Madagascar. 

It’s tucked away in Siberia and, in fact, very little was known about it until it got in the way of the Trans-Siberian Highway, which presumably makes the Trans-Taiga in Quebec look like a bike trail. As Baikal is rather big – it allegedly contains as much water as all the Great Lakes combined – building around it took quite some time.

Two-thirds of the region’s fauna are found nowhere else in the world. This is what brings Madagascar to mind - Madagascar’s unique ecosystem is of land isolated by water; Baikal’s is of water isolated by a zillion miles of land.

The picture there is Olkhon Island, the second-largest lake-bound island in the world.

All in all, one of the most interesting articles I’ve found on Wikipedia.

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