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    Olkhon Gate (Russian: Ольхонские Ворота, Olkhonskie Vorota) is a strait of Lake Baikal, Russia. It separates the south-west of Olkhon Island from the...
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    Olkhon (Russian: Ольхо́н, also transliterated as Olchon; Buryat: Ойхон, Oikhon) is the third-largest lake island in the world. It is by far the largest...
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    Baikal. In the south, Maloe More strait is connected through the narrow Olkhon Gate strait to the central part of the lake. The Tryokhgolovy Golets, highest...
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    View of Malomorskaya river station from Olkhon Gate strait Ferry "MRS – Olkhon Island" The ferry travels to Olkhon Island Bazarnaia Bay View on Sakhyurta...
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    serges at Cape Burhan on Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal Serges heavily adorned with ribbons and scarves at Cape Burhan on Olkhon Island A serge in the Amginsky...
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    Toko'yoto, Tomam, Xaya Iccita and Zonget. Places with sacred areas include Olkhon, an island in Lake Baikal. Many cities in northern Siberia, such as...
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    south of the Baikal Mountains and discovered Lake Baikal, visiting its Olkhon Island. Subsequently, Ivanov made the first chart and description of Baikal...
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  • done smaller amounts of fieldwork in China's Qinling (Qin Mountains), the Olkhon region in Siberia, the Mexican Cordillera, and several other regions. Beginning...
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    includes some mountain ridges to the west as well as offshore islands such as Olkhon Island to the east. It is about 50 km southeast of the city of Irkutsk,...
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    1643 – Kurbat Ivanov reaches the western shores of Lake Baikal, opposite Olkhon. 1643 – Maarten Gerritsz Vries sails along the eastern coast of "Yezo" (Hokkaidō)...
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  • Kirovsk, Lesosibirsk, Ulan Ude, Chita, Neryungri, Nikel, Nogliki, Okha, Olkhon Island, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ust-Barguzin, Ust-Ilimsk, Ust-Kut, Vanino...
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  • Team Russia had to continue driving to a ferry that would take them to Olkhon Island, where they had to ride mountain bikes and horses to the final waypoint...
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