Nature & geography・Hokkaido

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Also known as: 知床・Shiretoko Peninsula

A peninsula renowned for a food chain in which nutrients carried by drift ice bind together the creatures of sea and land. The value of that ecosystem earned it inscription as a UNESCO Natural Heritage site in 2005.

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