Lower Tunguska

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Related to Nizhnyaya Tunguska River: Indus River, Lena River, Brahmaputra River, Yangtze River, Yenisei River, Tunguska event

Lower Tunguska

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Tun•gu•ska

(tʊŋˈgu skə)

n.

any of three tributaries (Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, and Upper Tunguska) of the Yenesei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia.

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Lower Tunguska - a river that arises to the north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River

Tunguska

Siberia - a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

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However, Maak (1887), whose expedition in 1854-55 visited the Vilyuy River starting not far from the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River that flows east to the Lena River, reported that moose were absent in the area and local people had no knowledge of them.

Fragmentation of Eurasian moose populations during periods of population depression