Re: Lakes that are deep - Letter from Scotland - Day 3

[Dan Matyola]

I wasn't implying that you were bragging or wrong about the depths of 
Norwegian lakes.  I was just pointing out that tourist bureaus, chambers 
of commerce and similar organizations somtimes spread claims that have 
not been properly documented, out of a sense on local pride and a lack 
of fact-checking resources.

Jostein wrote:

On 30 Jul 2003 at 17:58, Dan Matyola wrote:

I think that all over the world, figure like this get exaggerated by 
folks promoting the local wonders.

Sorry, I didn't mean to go bragging about the virtues of Norwegian 
freshwater supplies. My point was merely to give some support to my 
statement about them doing insufficient research into the matter 
before publishing the website. Had I been at home, I could have 
looked up the matter in my textbooks on limnology. 

However, I don't think my memory is that rusty, since I apparently 
got the figures for both Baikal and Tanganyika almost right. :-)