i have no idea where WW gets the idea the lake is 3000 meters deep. most of the lake is a result of the Hugh Keenlyside Dam which i watched being built and it's well less than 100 meters tall. the lake essentially didn't exist before the dam was built.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 18:18 Subject: Re: Letter from Scotland - Day 3 > On 28 Jul 2003 at 21:05, William Robb wrote: > > > The Lower Arrow lake in BC is somewhat smaller on the surface than Loch > > Ness, but they don't know precisely how deep it is, as they haven't been > > able to find the bottom yet. > > Somewhere over 3000 meters, apparently. > > Wow... > The Deepest lakes I know of are the Baikal in Siberia and the > Tanganyika in Africa of 1600m and 1400m respectively. > If the Lower Arrow lake is 3000m deep, it sounds like a real world > record! > > Norway's deepest lake is Horningdalsvatnet of puny 1016m. It's the > deepest one in Europe, though. :-)
