Chapters: Lake Baikal, Ecoregion, Mekong, Danube Delta, Colorado River, Salween River, Wolf River, Niger Delta, List of Freshwater Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean, Inle Lake, Rift Valley Lakes, List of Freshwater Ecoregions in Africa and Madagascar, Tigris-euphrates River System, Paran? Delta, Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, Lake Biwa, Central Marshes, Southwestern Sri Lanka Rivers and Streams, Birds of the Danube Delta, Hawizeh Marshes, Volga Delta, Hammar Marshes, San Diego River, Lower Mississippi River, Glory Canal, Okavango Basin, San Luis Rey River, Cuvette Centrale, Llanos El Salado, Thysville Caves, Permanent Maghreb. Excerpt: Lake Baikal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A digital elevation model of Lake Baikal region. The Yenisei River basin, Lake Baikal and the settlements of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. Origin of the Angara River at Lake BaikalLake Baikal was known as the "North Sea" in historical Chinese texts. It was situated in the then Xiongnu territory. Very little was known to Europeans about the lake until the Russian expansion into the area in the 17th century. The first Russian explorer to reach Lake Baikal was Kurbat Ivanov in 1643. The Trans-Siberian railway was built between 1896 and 1902. The scenic railway around the southwestern end of Lake Baikal required 200 bridges and 33 tunnels; until its completion, a train ferry transported railcars across the lake (from Port Baikal to Mysovaya) for a number of years. As the railway was being built, a large hydrogeographical expedition headed by F.K. Drizhenko produced the first detailed atlas of the contours of Baikal's depths. Known as the "Gal?pagos of Russia", its age and isolation have produced some of the world's richest an... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56865