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less. nomiaon on drift-ice along the west and east Coasts of the north
island Of Novaya Zemlya, as also around te south island, as - well as
'on Vaigach Island, in the Kanin-Kolguev shallows, and in the northern
part of the White Sea. There are no shore rookeries of walruses in .
the southern and -
eastern parts of the Kara Sea; the animals are some-
-times seen on drift-ice in the Sharapovye i(oshki region and. near the
Belyi, Shokarskii, and Virkitskogo Islands, but farther east as far
as the Severnaya Zemlya arnhipelaeo they are still more rarely sighted.
Walruses are found throughout the Laptev Sea, apparently as
far as the eastern islands of the Novosibirsk archipelago. In the
and southwestern parts of the Laptev Sea thy are oçcasionally
western
seen on drift-ice at the south end of Severnaya Zemlya, in the Vil'-
kitskii Strait, and among the Komsomoliskaya travda Islands; they
rookeries on the shores of Paddeevekii, Andreya,.and,retra
Islands, in Mariya Fronchishchevaya Bay, and on Preobrazhenie,.Begichev,
and Peschanyi Islands. In the southern part of the sea, -
rookeries have been observed only in the central part of the Lena
delta, on Kuuba and Dunai Islands
shore
they have occasionally been seen
on drift-ice and in the water near other parts of the coast and neigh7
bouring islands.
In the eastern part of tue Laptev Sea, on the i'.ovosibirsk
Islands, walrus rookeries have been reported on Koternyi
and.2eltkovskii *Islands, and possibly on other islands in the eastern
part of -the archipelago. It is believed that the uastern limit of • •
the.range of the Laptev Sea walruses runs threuch tue western part -
of the .2,ast Siberian Sea.
are illustrated in 14.
The ranges of Ictlantic and i-acific walruses
•Walruses make reè,ular, but short, migrations within their
range. Durinr; winter and spring they stay in open areas of the sea
-- areas of drift-ice with extensive - patches of Openwater and crevasses.
When the drift-ice melts and breaks up the "walruses move to
shallow coastal waters, and :then,remain near the usual places where :
they form •shoru rookeries. •
In hich A!ctic latitude.; lilranz-Josef Land) walrus rookeries
• are observue bot on 'shore and on
ice. ,Aleir loveidents a] on the
coasts and ti.e islands :na i be described as mirations inte feeding
districts, as the shallow parts of the sea, especially near their .
carry abundance or food. ln Ulu !3arents, reuular shore rookeries,
form