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Blog Tundra Stories: The Lena River Delta
Friday, 13 July 2012
Lena River Delta, Graphic: Alfred Wegener InstituteAfter a few days on the road, I would like to write short note, to explain better where we are. For most German people the name Lena brings back the Eurovision Song Contest few years ago. But this place here has not so much to do with the signing Lena.
The Lena in this case is a river over 4000 miles long running from south from the shores of Lake Baikal to North to the Laptev Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is thus one of the longest rivers in Russia and even in the world. About 100 kilometers from the North end at the Arctic Ocean the river divides in to some large and many small arms, forming the largest delta in the Arctic coast.
The entire Delta as a whole is about as large as the Netherlands. But this comparison is somewhat misleading, since at the mouth of the Rhine lives almost 17 million Dutchmen and here, besides of a couple of fishermen, there is mainly only reindeer. Although in the area just around the Samoylov Island everything seems to get lost in orange in the summer, like the satellite image shows.
Max
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Main page of the English translation of the blog "Tundra Stories": http://page21.org/blogs/59-samoylov
Original blog in German: http://www.awi.de/de/go/Tundra-Stories
Lena River Delta, Graphic: Alfred Wegener InstituteAfter a few days on the road, I would like to write short note, to explain better where we are. For most German people the name Lena brings back the Eurovision Song Contest few years ago. But this place here has not so much to do with the signing Lena.The Lena in this case is a river over 4000 miles long running from south from the shores of Lake Baikal to North to the Laptev Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is thus one of the longest rivers in Russia and even in the world. About 100 kilometers from the North end at the Arctic Ocean the river divides in to some large and many small arms, forming the largest delta in the Arctic coast.
The entire Delta as a whole is about as large as the Netherlands. But this comparison is somewhat misleading, since at the mouth of the Rhine lives almost 17 million Dutchmen and here, besides of a couple of fishermen, there is mainly only reindeer. Although in the area just around the Samoylov Island everything seems to get lost in orange in the summer, like the satellite image shows.
Max
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Main page of the English translation of the blog "Tundra Stories": http://page21.org/blogs/59-samoylov
Original blog in German: http://www.awi.de/de/go/Tundra-Stories