Iokanga River (Иоканга, or Иоканьга in Russian) is a river in the north of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is 203 km in length. The area of its basin is 6,020 sq km. The Iokanga River originates in the Lake Alozero and flows into the Barents Sea. Its biggest tributary is the Sukhaya River. The Murray River in Australia. ... The Kola Peninsula in relation to Scandinavia, the White Sea, Barents Sea, Lake Onega, Lake Ladoga, and foreign countries. ... Murmansk Oblast (Му́рманская о́бласть) is an oblast in north-western Russia. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... Basin has several meanings: A watershed, which may be called also a hydrological basin or catchment basin. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Southeastern portion of Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ...
It borders upon the Barents Sea on the North and the White Sea on the East and South.
The west border of the Kola Peninsula stretches along a meridian from the Kola Gulf through the Imandra Lake, Kola Lake, and the Niva River to the Kandalaksha Gulf.
The rivers of the peninsula are an important habitat for the Atlantic Salmon salmo salar, which return from Greenland and the Faroe Islands to spawn in fresh water.
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