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The Solovetsky Archipelago
The Solovetsky Archipelago is situated in the northern part of the Onega Bay of the White Sea, 165 km south of the Polar Circle. The Archipelago consists of more than one hundred islands, six of them – Bolshoi Solovetsky, Anzer, Bolshaya and Malaya Muksalma, Bolshoi and Maly Zayatsky - are quite big. The general area of the Archipelago is 300 sq. km.; the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island, the biggest in the White Sea, is 219 sq.km.
The highest points of the Solovki are Verbokolskaya Mountain (86 m) on the Anzer Island, Sekirnaya Mountain (74 m) on the B. Solovetsky Island, Golgotha Mountain (64 m) on the Anzer.
The unique nature of the Solovetsky Islands very much depends on the geographical position and on a very special microclimate - winters are mild, springs are colder than autumns, summers are cool. Seasons change each other 2 or 3 weeks later than on the mainland.
This is why the area of some tens of kilometers on the Solovki Islands of natural complexes could only be found in similar landscapes on the mainland but at a distance of many hundreds of kilometers from each other. Tundra takes 5% of the Archipelago area, forest tundra makes 10 %, taiga forests cover more than 60%, lakes and swamps are correspondingly 13 and 12 %. For more details...
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