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The Shantar Islands: Braving the Storm

A voyage to the most inaccessible islands in Russia's Far East

Travel to the sea of Okhotsk to visit the islands where a human population of just seven live cheek by jowl with 200 bears. Meet the killer whales and brave a climate so severe that icebergs linger through the summer and September sees the first snows. 

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