Mystery Lake

[cyclonic happiness]

I'm not bad at geography, but when watching the latest Met Office forecast, a huge mystery lake has appeared to the north of the Caspian sea in Russia?

Any explanations?

 

[AderynCoch]

Looks like a distorted Lake Baikal to me. 

EDIT - too far west

Edited June 19, 2019 by AderynCoch

[cheeky_monkey]

Rybinsk Reservoir

[Freeze]

There is a lake there on the map but a lot smaller, could this be caused by the mercators projection where on some maps places nearer the poles appear larger than they actually are to make the shape of countries remain the same on a flat surface map?

[cyclonic happiness]

8 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

Rybinsk Reservoir

it's way too large for that, just look at lake Onega , it's tiny compared

[Snipper]

Is this it?

 

 

[cyclonic happiness]

14 minutes ago, Snipper said:

Is this it?

 

 

I think it may be, but the size is way out of proportion 

[cheeky_monkey]

5 minutes ago, cyclonic happiness said:

I think it may be, but the size is way out of proportion 

it is and thats the Rybinsk Reservoir

[Snipper]

Possibly because of the angle of the globe in the picture. 

[Snipper]

[weirpig]

12 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

it is and thats the Rybinsk Reservoir

It most certainly is

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rybinsk+lake&id=CC1D440FDC0CA9379E97113CE9DE7851DB65837E&FORM=IQFRBA&PC=LNCH05

[Snipper]

[AderynCoch]

I'm pretty sure Rybinsk Reservoir is the one right next to the 'w' in 'what'.

No reason at all for the mystery lake to be where it is.

[cyclonic happiness]

11 hours ago, AderynCoch said:

I'm pretty sure Rybinsk Reservoir is the one right next to the 'w' in 'what'.

No reason at all for the mystery lake to be where it is.

it's the size of it, where all the other lakes in the area are to scale