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KOLA , a See also:peninsula of See also:northern See also:Russia, lying between the See also:Arctic Ocean on the N. and the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Sea on the S. It forms See also:part of the region of See also:Lapland and belongs administratively to the See also:government of See also:Archangel. The Arctic See also:coast, known as the Murman coast (Murman being a corruption of See also:Norman), is 26o m. See also:long, and being subject to the See also:influence of the See also:North See also:Atlantic See also:drift, is See also:free from See also:ice all the See also:year See also:round. It is a rocky coast, built of See also:granite, and rising to 65o ft., and is broken by several excellent bays. On one of these, Kola See also:Bay, the See also:Russian government founded in 1895 the See also:naval See also:harbour of See also:Alexandrovsk. From May to See also:August a productive See also:fishery is carried on along this coast. Inland the peninsula rises up to a See also:plateau, loon ft. in See also:general See also:elevation, and crossed by several ranges of See also:low mountains, which go up to over 3000 ft. in See also:altitude. The See also:lower slopes of these mountains are clothed with See also:forest up to 1300 ft., and in places thickly studded with lakes, some of them of very considerable extent, e.g. Imandra, (33o sq. m.), Ump-jaur, Nuortijarvi, Guolle-jaur or Kola See also:Lake, and Lu-jaur. From these issue streams of appreciable magnitude, such as the Tuloma, Voronya, Yovkyok or Yokanka, and Ponoi, all flowing into the Arctic, and the Varsuga and Umba, into the White Sea. The See also:area of the peninsula is estimated at 50,000 sq. m.
See A. 0. Kihlmann and Palmeri, See also:Die Expedition nach der Halbinsel Kola (1887–1892) (See also:Helsingfors) ; A. 0. Kihlmann, Bericht einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise durch Russisch-Lappland (Helsingfors, 1890) ; and W. See also:Ramsay, Geologische Beobachtungen auf der Halbinsel Kola (Helsingfors, 1899).
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