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The popularity of Lake Baikal is growing from year to year, but there is no developed infrastructure in the area. The ice road to Olkhon Island is the only legal ice road on Lake Baikal. The route is prepared by specialists every year and it opens when the ice conditions allow it. In 2015, the ice road to Olkhon was open from 17 February to 23 ...
Cape Kholyanki is a popular ice fishing location because of the relatively colder and deeper water. [3] [1] [4] [5] About 5 km due east of Cape Dukhovy and 3 km southeast of Cape Bilyutinsky is a shallow 2.5 km by 1.2 km pond, Lake Dukhovoye, that has an outlet about 1.5 km northeast of Cape Dukhovy. [3] [1] [4]
The plot of mean sea level pressure over the winter months [clarification needed] shows a large area of high atmospheric pressure in the South of Siberia.. The Siberian High affects the weather patterns in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere: its influence extends as far west as Italy, [3] bringing freezing conditions also in the warm South, [4] and as far southeast as Malaysia, [5] where it ...
The U.S. National Ice Center released its 2024-2025 seasonal outlook, predicting slightly below to near normal ice conditions across the Great Lakes — a turnaround from last season’s record ...
The recent arctic blast has pushed ice cover on the Great Lakes to levels not seen since 2022. Lake Erie in particular has become mostly ice covered in quick order. As of January 23, ice cover has ...
The Baikal-Lena Reserve has three sectors: the coast ("The shore of brown bears"), the Upper Lena River, and the Kirengsky sector. [2] Because of its position on the lake shore with a mountain ridge to the west to screen the prevailing winds, Baikal-Lena is the driest reserve on the lake.
Image credits: Mpmajewski #2 Marble Caves, Chile. Stunning series of caverns carved into solid marble by water over thousands of years. Located on Lake General Carrera, the caves are renowned for ...
Ogoy (Russian: Ого́й from Buryat: Уһагγй - waterless) is the largest island in the Maloe More strait of Lake Baikal. It has an elongated shape, 2.9 km (1.8 mi) in length and 0.6 km (0.37 mi) in width. It is located between the Cape Shara-Shulun on the west coast of the Olkhon Island and Kurminskiy Bay on the western shore of Lake ...