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#lakes

a 3d view of an old topographic map, showing both the mountainous terrain and the bathymetry
A dark map of Lake Baikal. Titled: 'Lake Baikal' with subtitle: 'Age: oldest (25-30 million years) Depth: deepest (1,642 m) Area: 7th largest (Belgium + 1,033 km2)'. The bathymetry is coloured from dark black at the deepest through a purple-y gray to gray for the shallow regions. A colorbar has the 'dysphotic' and 'aphotic' zones roughly labelled. It spans latitude 52-56 N and longitudes 104-110 E. (approx). A dark, mostly black, subtle hillshade is applied to the surrounding landscape. The lake cuts a roughly diagonal line from the bottom left of the frame to the top right, and it is very narrow compared to its length. Credits at the bottom read: 'by:tlohde / GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group 2025 (2025): The GEBCO_2025 Grid - a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 15 arc-second intervals'
Map titled: 'Qikiqtaq 69°10ʹN 57°25ʹW, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada' The island is irregularly shaped, with several larger bays/inlets. The island is covered with many, many lakes. The lakes have been coloured in a variety of blues. In the top left is a small histogram showing the distribution of lake areas, on a logarithmic scale: with mode of 0.01 km^2. In the bottom left is a map showing where Qikiqtaq is in the Canadian Arctic, above the rest of North America and to the west of Greenland. A scale bar in the bottom right corner is 25 km wide, indicating that the whole island is ~200 km across at it's widest point. Some text in upper right reads: 'here, lakes cover ~24% of the island and there are ~46 lakes per person'.
A topographic map showing contour lines, peaks, glaciers and lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valley region of Antarctica
A map of all the lakes in Finland, with the caption: if you go skydiving in Finland you have a 1 in 12 chance of getting wet