The coastal history of the greatest lake in Europe. ...
This is an enlarged and substantially revised version in English of Laatokka: Suurjärven kiehtova rantahistorica, edited by Maria Lähteenmäki and published in 2021. It deals with Lake Ladoga, which as the title reminds us is the largest freshwater lake entirely in Europe, and undoubtedly one of the...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.100094 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/354202 |
| Summary: | This is an enlarged and substantially revised version in English of Laatokka: Suurjärven kiehtova rantahistorica, edited by Maria Lähteenmäki and published in 2021. It deals with Lake Ladoga, which as the title reminds us is the largest freshwater lake entirely in Europe, and undoubtedly one of the world’s ‘great lakes’. It is over 150 km long and 100 km wide, large enough to experience its own weather and often known as the ‘Karelian Sea’. Until 1944 half of it lay within Finland; redrawing of borders after the Second World War placed it entirely within the Soviet Union, in Russia. As scholarship relating to Russia becomes increasingly disconnected from much of the rest of the world, and the risk of forgetting increases, publication of this book in English is timely. Why should readers Polar Record take notice of it? Geographically speaking, the lake lies within the subarctic region, in the southern taiga. As such, it falls within one of the most important biomes for the global climate system, and it would ... |
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