Lake Superior spans roughly 31,700 square miles along the US-Canada border and holds roughly 10 percent of all the fresh surface water on the planet, according to WorldAtlas.
Global Continental Matchups
The freshwater heavyweight measures about the size of South Carolina or Austria. It reaches depths of around 1,330 feet and holds enough liquid to flood both North and South America under a foot of water, United States News Beep reported.
Asia’s entry, the Caspian Sea, spans roughly 143,000 square miles and is roughly four and a half times larger than Superior. Despite carrying a sea in its name, the Caspian functions as a landlocked lake that wallops Superior in sheer surface area while straddling the Europe-Asia border.
Africa brings Lake Victoria as a close freshwater challenger at about 26,600 square miles. Victoria trails Superior by fewer than 5,000 square miles, but Victoria is shallow with a maximum depth of about 270 feet, leaving Superior to hold roughly four times as much actual water.
Lake Titicaca Sits High in the Andes
South America offers Lake Titicaca at around 3,200 square miles, perched over 12,500 feet up in the Andes as the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. Superior could swallow Titicaca about ten times over.
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and Lake Vostok Remain Largely Dry or Frozen
Australia’s largest lake, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, is a vast salt flat in the South Australian outback that usually remains dry and only fills completely a handful of times a century after rare heavy rains to the north.
Antarctica presents Lake Vostok at about 4,800 square miles, buried under roughly two and a half miles of solid ice and sealed off from sunlight for millions of years.
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