Kyun-Tas (; ) is a mountain range in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...
,
Far Eastern Federal District
The Far Eastern Federal District ( rus, Дальневосточный федеральный округ, p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk) is the largest and the least populated federal districts of Russia, federa ...
, Russia.
The Kyun-Tas is one of the mountain areas of Yakutia where there are
kigilyakh rock formation
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s.
Geography
The Kyun-Tas is located northeast of
Deputatsky,
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The Polousny Range (; ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.Полоусный кряж (Polousny Range) / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov. 2004—2017.
This range is one ...
. It rises at the southern limit of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland
The Yana-Indigirka Lowland (; ) is a large, low alluvial plain located in northern Siberia, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). There are inhabited ...
, northwest of the Aby Lowland
The Aby Lowland (; ) is a low alluvial plain located in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Administratively most of the territory of the lowland is part of Aby District ''(Aby Ulus)''.
Geography
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The main ridge stretches in a roughly southeast/northwest direction west of the eastern slopes of the Selennyakh Range for about .Google Earth
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Hydrography
The long Nuchcha, a tributary of the Chondon
The Chondon (; ) is a river in Ust-Yansky District, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is long, with a drainage basin of .
The Chondon mammoth was discovered in 2013 in the Chondon basin, at the feet of the Polousny Range, 66 km south-west of ...
, originates in the range. Also the long Baky
The Baky (; , ''Bakı'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is one of the northern tributaries of the Yana. The river has a length of and a drainage basin area of .
The river flows north of the Arctic Circle. Its basin falls ...
, one of the rivers that forms the Uyandina
The Uyandina (; ) is a river in Sakha Republic, Yakutia, Russia, a tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the Uyandina is . The area of its drainage basin is .
Course
The river is formed by the confluence of the long Irgichyan originating in ...
tributary of the Indigirka
The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is .
History
The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...
, has its source in Lake Baky, located at the junction of the Kyun-Tas and the western end of the Polousny Range.
See also
* Kigilyakh
References
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External links
Regional populations and migration of moose in northern Yakutia, Russia.
Mountain ranges of the Sakha Republic
ceb:Khrebet Kyuntas
sah:Күн Таас