Astronaut Ivan Vagner captured from ISS Lake Baikal and Olkhon Island.
Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, and deepest lake with a maximum depth of 1,642m. It is also considered the world’s oldest lake at 25 million years. On the western coast, close to Khuzhir, is Baikal’s most famous landmark, the Shamanka, or Shaman’s Rock (Olkhon Island). Olkhon is the third-largest lake island in the world. It is by far the largest island in Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, with an area of 730km2. Structurally, it constitutes the southwestern margin of the Academician Ridge. The island measures 71.5km in length and 20.8 km in width. There are two versions regarding the origin of the name of the island and both are derived from the language of the Buryats, the indigenous people of Olkhon.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Ivan Vagners Tweet
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