The land around Lake Baikal is alive with hot springs, ... Irkutsk, the unofficial capital of the Baikal region, is both a modern city and excellent introduction to Siberia's past.

1. The Ellsworth Mountains and Wilkes Land are part of which continent? 2. The coastal seaport of Santos is located near the Tropic of Capricorn on which continent? 3. Kathmandu Valley and the ...

The facility spread a pungent sulfur smell all over the city. ... “A tour around Lake Baikal costs as much as an all-inclusive week in Thailand or Egypt,” she says.

Lake Baikal, in the southern part of eastern Siberia, Russia, is among the oldest existing freshwater lakes on Earth, thought to date back around 25 million years, according to the Unesco World ...