The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 181National Geographic Society., 1992 - Geography |
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... lake . And how it is that a strong man like Sergei Vasiliev , 36 summers after he ferried a commission around Lake Baikal on a ship called Albatross , might be haunted still by the sight of a pulp mill in the middle of Siberia ...
... lake . And how it is that a strong man like Sergei Vasiliev , 36 summers after he ferried a commission around Lake Baikal on a ship called Albatross , might be haunted still by the sight of a pulp mill in the middle of Siberia ...
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... lake begins to thaw . In the lake's northern end , ice floes often linger until June . Sea 4 , 100 kilometers away . So immense is Lake Baikal that if all its 336 tributaries dried up tomorrow , its volume - some 23,000 cubic kilometers ...
... lake begins to thaw . In the lake's northern end , ice floes often linger until June . Sea 4 , 100 kilometers away . So immense is Lake Baikal that if all its 336 tributaries dried up tomorrow , its volume - some 23,000 cubic kilometers ...
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... lake . " Compared with Baikal , Lake Tahoe is a desert , " says Gra- chev's colleague Charles Goldman from the University of Califor- nia at Davis . " Tahoe is 10,000 years old and has two endemic species . Baikal is over 25 million ...
... lake . " Compared with Baikal , Lake Tahoe is a desert , " says Gra- chev's colleague Charles Goldman from the University of Califor- nia at Davis . " Tahoe is 10,000 years old and has two endemic species . Baikal is over 25 million ...
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