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A braided river ecosystem snakes through the tundra and is used by salmon spawning.
Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
- Image Size
- 5241x3408 / 11.0MB
- Keywords
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aerial view, and gulfs, channels, color image, commonwealth of independent states, day, desolate, desolate landscapes, ecosystems, geography, getty, habitats, habitats and ecosystems, horizon over land, horizons, image composition, kamchatka, kamchatka peninsula, landscapes, nature, no people, outdoors, photography, physical geography, ponds, remote, rivers, russia, russia (the country), straits
- Contained in galleries
- Kamchatka Salmon_ National Geographic Magazine 8/2009
