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Ervynaygytgyn
Ervynaygytgyn (; ) is a freshwater lake in Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth It has an area of about (). There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake. The name of the lake in Chukot means "a lake near a sharp mountain."Leontiev V.V. & Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'' / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House, 1989 . Geography Ervynaygytgyn is located in the Chukotka Mountains of the Chukotka Peninsula, about southwest of lake Ekityki and to the north of Yanranaygytgyn. The lake is elongated and stretches roughly from NW to SE. The western section is broad and the lake narrows towards its eastern end. The lake lies in a swampy intermontane basin with a number of rivers flowing into it. The largest is the long Irvyneyveem, a tributary of the ...
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Chukotka Mountains
The Chukotka Mountains () or Chukotka Upland (), is a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Chukchi Highlands
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The s of this system are largely barren and desolate. About half of their area is above the . The climate is one of the harshest in the

List Of Lakes Of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: * Achchyon (Аччён) * Akush (Акуш) * Arakhley (Арахле́й) * Astrodym (Астродым) * Baikal (Байкал) * Bakhmatovskoye (Бахматовское) * Baunt (Баунт) * Bauzhansor (Баужансор) * Belenkoye (Беленькое) * Belenkoye (Беленькое) * Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое) * Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое) * Bokon (Бокон) * Bolshoy Bagan (Большой Баган) * Bolshoy Yeravna (Большо́е Ера́вное) * Bolshoye Morskoye (Большое Морское) * Bolshoye Ostrovnoye (Большое Островное) * Bolshoye Shklo (Большое Шкло) * Bolshoye Toko (Большое Токо) * Bolshoye Topolnoye (Большое Топольное) * Bolshoye Yarovoye (Большое Яровое) * Botkul (Боткуль) * Brosno (Бросно) * Bura (Бура) * Burlinskoye (Бурлинское) * Busani (Бусани) * Bustakh (Бустах) *C ...
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Iultinsky District
Iultinsky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Ivyltin rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #149-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug and borders with the Chukchi Sea in the north, Providensky District in the east, Gulf of Anadyr in the southeast, and with Anadyrsky District in the southwest. The area of the district is .Official website of Iultinsky DistrictAbout the district Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Egvekinot. Population: The population of Egvekinot accounts for 64.4% of the district's total population. The territory of the modern district has been populated since the Paleolithic age, though indigenous people are outnumbered by ethnic Russians by over three to one. The district was once ...
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Yanranaygytgyn
Yanranaygytgyn (; ) is a freshwater lake in Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth It has an area of and a catchment area of . There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake. The name of the lake in Chukot means "a lake near a separate mountain." Geography Yanranaygytgyn is located in the Chukotka Mountains, to the south of Ervynaygytgyn. The lake has a roughly triangular shape and there are three islands in the middle. The southern shore is indented and the lake narrows towards its northern end. Yanranaygytgyn lies in an area of lakes at the northern edge of the Amguema Valley. It is the largest of the cluster, together with lake Kontalyagytgyn that lies to the southwest. An unnamed river, a small tributary of the Amguema, flows out of the lake from the northern end. Yanranaygytgyn freezes in mid-September and stays under ice until June. Flora and fauna Yanranaygytgyn is surrounded by tundra. Arctic char is commo ...
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Ekityki (lake)
Lake Ekityki () is a lake in Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation. Geography The lake lies in the Chukotka Mountains, in the Siberian Far East. The Ekityki River flows through and it belongs to its basin. The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow. It is oriented from east to west and is long with an average width of . The Ekityk Range stretches above the northern shore. Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year. Lake Ervynaygytgyn lies about to the southwest. Fauna Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy Whitefish, Pygmy whitefish is found. See also *List of lakes of Russia References External linksОзеро ЭкитыкиPicture Tourism and Environmental data
Lakes of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka Mountains Iultinsky District {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub ...
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Chukotka Peninsula
The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; , ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form , ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula of Asia. Its eastern end is at Cape Dezhnev near the village of Uelen. The Chukotka Mountains are located in the central/western part of the peninsula, which is bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the Bering Strait to the east, where at its easternmost point it is only about from Seward Peninsula in Alaska; this is the smallest distance between the land masses of Eurasia and North America. The peninsula is part of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia."Chukchi Peninsula"Encyclopedia.com
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Intermontane Basin
Intermontane is a physiographic adjective formed from the prefix " inter-" (''signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal'') and the adjective "montane" (inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline). The corresponding ''physiographic'' noun is intermountain, while the noun ''intermontane'' is an ''ecologic'' noun meaning ''among, between, amid, or within " flora and fauna of a montane habitat.''" As an example, an alpine region would be an intermontane for a species that migrates between a glacial region and a subalpine region. Use of the term *Intermontane Basin, a wide valley between mountain ranges that is partly filled with alluvium such as New Zealand's Mackenzie Basin. *Intermontane Belt, a physiogeological region in the North American Pacific Northwest. * Intermontane Plateaus, the United States physiographic region of the Intermountain West. *Intermontane Steppe, a term used main ...
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Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The mission's Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were joined in orbit in 2024 by a third, Sentinel-2C, and in the future by Sentinel-2D, eventually replacing the A and B satellites, respectively. The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space Agency. The satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Overview The Sentinel-2 mission includes: * Multispectral image, Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the Visible spectrum, visible, Infrared#Regions within the infrared, near infrared, and Infrared#Regions within the infrared, short wave infrared part of the Electromagnetic ...
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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka ( ; ), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an Autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border with the Sakha Republic to the west, Magadan Oblast to the south-west, and Kamchatka Krai to the south, as well as a Maritime boundary, maritime border on the Bering Strait with the U.S. state of Alaska to the east. Anadyr (town), Anadyr is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center, capital, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia. It is the closest point from Russia to the United States, measuring at 88.51 kilometres or 55 miles. Chukotka is primarily populated by ethnic Russians, Chukchi people, Chukchi, and other Indigenous peoples of Siberia, indigenous peoples. It is the only autonomous okrug in Russia that is not included in, or subordinate to, another federal subject, ...
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Magadan
Magadan ( rus, Магадан, p=məɡɐˈdan) is a port town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the Nagaev Bay; it serves as a gateway to the Kolyma region. Magadan, founded in 1929, was a major transit centre for political prisoners during the Stalin era and the administrative centre of the Dalstroy forced-labor gold-mining operation. The town later served as a port for exporting gold and other metals. Magadan plays a significant role in transportation with the Port of Magadan and Sokol Airport. The local economy relies on gold mining and fisheries, although gold production has declined. The town has various cultural institutions and religious establishments, such as the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity. The Mask of Sorrow memorial commemorates Stalin's victims. Magadan experiences a subarctic climate with prolonged and cold winters, causing the soil to remain perman ...
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