The Delta
Produzione:
by Vasiliy Sarana – Produced by Vesilind – Estonia 2012 – Running time: 45 min. - Featured area: Ust-Lenskiy Nature Reserve, Yakutia, Russia
River Lena begins as a rivulet from a tiny lake. It passes 4,400 km through the entirety of Siberia, moving south to north, to reach the ice-cold Arctic ocean. For millions of years, the river has ground and squeezed by the rocky river banks, carrying along sand and gravel to form the largest delta in the Arctic. The border between land and water is constantly changing. Distributaries and islands appear and disappear faster than cartographers are able to draw new maps: the reason why the region is called the Land of Disappearing Islands.
