Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky (Кроноцкий) Nature Reserve (also: "Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik") is a nature area reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of . The largest lake in the reserve is Lake Kronotskoye, which covers an area of . It also has Russia's only geyser basin, plus several mountain ranges with numerous volcanoes, both active and extinct. Due to its often harsh climate and its mix of volcanoes and geysers, it is frequently described as
Extinct Kannada literature Extinct Kannada literature Extinct Kannada literature is a body of literature of the Kannada language dating from the period preceding the first extant work, "Kavirajamarga" (ca. 850 CE). Although no works of this period are available now, references to them are found in the Kavirajamarga and a handful of other extant works. While a few scholars may have expressed reservations regarding the extent of this literature, noted modern scholars such as A.K. Ramanujan, K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, R. S. Mugali, and A. K. Warder, to name a few, have hypothesized that a body of literature must have existed in an earlier