The Shrenk (russian: Шренк) is a river in
Russia
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, the main left tributary of the
Taymyra
The Taymyra (russian: Таймыра) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the middle of the Taymyr Peninsula. It is about long and has a drainage basin of .Taymyr Peninsula
The Taymyr Peninsula (russian: Таймырский полуостров, Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administrat ...
in the
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in ...
administrative region of the
Russian Federation
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North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographic ...
.
Course
The Shrenk flows into the Lower Taymyra after the latter flows out of Lake Taymyr northwards across the
Byrranga mountain region into the
Taymyr Gulf
The Taymyr Gulf (russian: Таймырская губа, Taymyrskaya guba; also known as ''Taymyr Bay'', russian: Таймырский залив, Taymyrsky zaliv, link=no) is a gulf in the Kara Sea that includes the estuary of the Lower Taymyra ...
of the
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipela ...
. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The Shrenk's main left hand tributary is the 168 km long
Mamonta ('Mammoth River'), where the remains of the northernmost
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus'', one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and ...
in the world were found in 1948. Its right hand tributaries are the 74 km long
Moskvichka, the 84 km long
Posadochnaya, the 94 km long
Gryadovaya and the 93 km long
Graviynaya.
The area of the Shrenk basin is a largely uninhabited and desolate expanse without modern infrastructures. It was explored by Russian biologist and explorer
Alexander von Middendorff
Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ми́ддендорф; tr. ; 18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He is known for his ex ...
in 1843.
[Erki Tammiksaar & Ian R. Stone, ''Alexander von Middendorff and his expedition to Siberia (1842–1845)'']
References
External links
Discoveries of Wooly Mammoth
Rivers of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Drainage basins of the Kara Sea
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