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3 unusual facts about Circum-Baikal Railway


Circum-Baikal Railway

The routing of its eastern section, from Mysovaya to Kultuk (at the lake's southwestern tip), passing along the flat southern coast of the lake, did not cause difficulties.

It runs along the Northern shore of the Southern extremity of the lake from the town of Slyudyanka to the Baikal settlement.

SS Baikal

Before the Circum-Baikal Railway was opened in 1905, Baikal, and later the Angara, carried two loads a day between piers at Baikal and Mysovaya.


Margarites costalis

This marine species occurs in circum-arctic waters; from Labrador, Canada and Greenland to Cape Cod, USA; from the Bering Strait to Southern Alaska

Pontic littoral

Black Sea coastal area (Circum-Pontic region), in geography

Sicilian green toad

demonstrated that this Sicilian taxon has a distinct mitochondrial haplotype differing in this respect from all other circum-Mediterranean green toad species.

Winckler-Caetani theory

This theory has recently been replaced and significantly updated by Juris Zarins who proposes that a Circum Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex developed in the period from the climatic crisis of 6,200BCE, partly as a result of an increasing emphasis in PPNB cultures upon animal domesticates, and a fusion with Harifian hunter gatherers in Southern Palestine, with affiliate connections with the cultures of Fayyum and the Eastern Desert of Egypt.


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