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Ol’khon

an island in northwestern Lake Baikal, Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR. It is separated from the shore by the Maloe More and Ol’khonskie Vorota straits. Area, 730 sq km; elevations, to 1,276 m. The island is composed of Archean gneisses, marbles, quartzites, and granites. There is larch taiga in the north and steppe in the south. Strong northwest winds are typical. The settlement of Khuzhir is located on Ol’khon Island.

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No references found			They then disappeared, as Chilingarov and other scientists watched from a mission-control point on a nearby platform, near the lake's rugged Olkhon island. Russia's diving record attempt ends in farce by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk As we recrossed the lake and worked our way up the shoreline to Olkhon Island, exploring villages and hiking woods, and as we argued about procedures and mapping techniques and values, our mutual suspicions slowly gave way to mutual admiration and trust. Baikal, bring us together by Smith, Zane G. / American Forests			olivette Olivetti Olivetti & C. SpA Olivia Olividae Olivier Olivier Eugene Messiaen Olivier Eugène Messiaen Olivier Lacombe Olivier, Isaac Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton Olivier, Laurence, Baron Olivier Olivier, Sydney Haldane Olivier, 1st Baron Olivine olivine basalt olivine diabase olivine nephelinite olivine-bronzite chondrite olivine-hypersthene chondrite olivine-pigeonite chondrite Olivkov, Boris Olivkov, Boris Mikhailovich Olkhin, Aleksandr Olkhin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Olkhon Olkhovatka Olkusz Ollenhauer, Erich ollenite Oller, Francisco Ollier's disease Ollivant, Alfred Ollivier, Emile Ollivier, Émile olm Olmec Olmec architecture Olmec Culture Olmedo, José Joaquin Olmert, Ehud Olminskii, Mikhail Olminskii, Mikhail Stepanovich Olmstead Place State Park Olmsted County Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. Olmsted, John Charles Olmütz Olmutz Punctation of 1850 Olmütz Punctation of 1850			olivipetal Olivite Olivkov, Boris Olivkov, Boris Mikhailovich Olivocerebellar axon Olivocerebellar fibers Olivocerebellar tract Olivocochlear Lateral Efferent System Olivolja Olivolja Olivolja Olivopontine Cerebellar Atrophy olivopontocerebellar Olivopontocerebellar atrophies olivopontocerebellar atrophy olivopontocerebellar atrophy olivopontocerebellar atrophy olivopontocerebellar atrophy Olivopontocerebellar Degeneration Olivos Tenis Club Olivospinal tract OLIVR OLJ OLJC Olje- og Energidepartementet Oljearbeidernes Fellessammenslutning OLKC Olkhin, Aleksandr Olkhin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Olkhon Olkhon Island Olkhovatka Olkusz OLL Oll korrect Oll korrect olla olla olla podrida olla podridas Olla-podrida Ollah Ollah Ollandse Lange Afstand Tippelaars Ollari OLLAS OLLAS ollas podridas OLLB OLLC OLLD OLLE OLLEISN Ollenhauer, Erich ollenite Oller Oller, Francisco Ollerus

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