“Delta” is the continuation of a film about the source of the river Lena “Walking in Siberia”.
Many millions of years, the great Siberian river Lena carried to the ocean silt, sand and small pebbles. At the end of the way it dumped all this stuff at the bottom of the Laptev Sea and the Arctic Circle has formed a phenomenon of global scale – a huge delta, which occupies area 2 in the world.
Today, this water world is approximately 6.5 thousand. Km of large and small duct 30 thousand. Lakes of various sizes and more than 1.5 thousand. Islands and islets. No other river in the world does not form in the Arctic similar largest delta. Every year die, and formed new islands, lakes, streams, changing the fantastic beauty of the landscape.
But, despite the fact that the ever-changing world is among the icy northern deserts, it is filled with life and is a welcome haven for the inhabitants of the Arctic. What is this wondrous land, which is like a magnet for all living things?
Translation: Google
