Explore the world's largest lakes, from Caspian Sea to Great Bear Lake, known for their vastness, depth, and stunning beauty.

Flathead Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and one of the cleanest in the world. All of the lake's entire 5.56 cubic miles of water is flushed every 2.2 ...

Lake Baikal, at the start of the Angara River, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, 1980s. Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia ...

The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long ...

Boatzon looked at the economic and environmental importance of the 10 largest lakes in the U.S. Lake sizes and locations are ...

The lake is bordered by Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Zambia, forming part of the East African Rift Valley.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BROWN LAKE TANGANYIKA This cargo boat plies the waters of the world’s second largest freshwater lake by volume (after Siberia’s Lake Baikal). Millions of ...

Kariba is the largest man-made lake in the world by volume and lies 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Lusaka on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The massive dam wall was built in the ...

The construction of reservoirs and dams has produced some incredible waterways that are just as breathtaking as their natural counterparts. Entire forests were submerged to create the world's ...

There is no official record-keeping or database of the world's biggest freshwater ... giant fish in rivers and lakes on six continents, this is the largest freshwater fish that we've encountered ...