salmonid
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Russia
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.
Distribution
This char lives in
glacier lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,0 ...
Russian Far East
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, where it may adapt to extremely severe conditions. It may be found both in fresh and
brackish
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waters between the
Kolyma River
The Kolyma (, ; ) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia.
The Kolyma is frozen to depths of several metres for about 250 days each year, b ...
and the
Bering Sea
The Bering Sea ( , ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre, p=ˈbʲerʲɪnɡəvə ˈmorʲe) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasse ...
Chaun Bay
The Chaunskaya Bay or Chaun Bay () is an Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, in Chaunsky District, Chukotka, northeast Siberia. There is Port of Pevek.
Geography
The bay is open to the north and is 140 km in length. Its maximum width is 1 ...
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, Ru ...
), as well as the rivers of the
Kolyuchin Bay
Kolyuchin Bay (; ''Kolyuchinskaya guba'') is a large bay in the Chukchi Sea on the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia.
Administratively this bay belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation.
Geography
To the ...
Mechigmen Bay
Chukotsky District (, ''Čukótskiy rayón''; Chukchi: , ''Čukotkakèn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #47-OZ district (raion), one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the easternmost district of the a ...
Achchyon
Achchyon (; ; ), is a lake in Providensky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth
There are archaeological remains of a Siberian Yupik settlement by the lakeshore. Currently there is no permanent human habitation on t ...
Providensky District
Providensky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Urèlḳujym rajon''; Yupik languages, Yupik: Уӷрилӄуйым район) is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #45-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Ch ...
Kresta Bay
Kresta Bay or Kresta Gulf (; ''Zaliv Kresta'') is a large bay of the Gulf of Anadyr on the southern coast of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russian Federation. Administratively the bay is part of the Iultinsky District of Chukotka.
Geography
The Krest ...
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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, Ru ...
), the
Anadyr Anadyr may refer to:
*Anadyr (town), a town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
* Anadyr District
* Anadyr Estuary
* Anadyr (river), a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
* Anadyr Highlands
* Anadyr Lowlands
* A ...
basin (
Anadyr District
Anadyrsky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Kagyrgyn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #148-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Rus ...