The Shelag Range, Shelag Ridge () is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the

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of the

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. The area of the range is desolate and uninhabited except for a few mining areas.mindat.org Shelagskiy Khrebet, Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia
/ref> The range was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky.

Geography

The Shelag Range is a northwestern prolongation of the

Chukotka Mountains The Chukotka Mountains () or Chukotka Upland (), is a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

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This mountain chain runs in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about , north of the

Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the northernmost of the five major circle of latitude, circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern counterpart is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circl ...

and parallel to the

East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea (; ) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, ...

shore. Its western end is

Cape Shelagsky Cape Shelagsky or Cape Shelag (; ), also known as Erri by the Siberian Yupik, is a headland situated in eastern Siberia, Russia on the shores of the East Siberian Sea.Google Earth The cape was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic gro ...

and

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 ...

and it is limited to the south by the Ichvuveyem Range, which rises by the Ichvuveyem river, beyond which lie the Chaun Lowlands. To the east the range is bound by the valley of the Keveyem (Кэвеем) river. The highest point is high Medvezhy Logovo peak.Gora Medvezh’ye Logovo: Russia
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Flora

The range has a barren look. The mountain slopes are covered with very little vegetation, mainly grasses, shrubs and "

dwarf cedar ''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...

", up to to . At higher elevations there is only rocky

mountain tundra Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...

. The climate of the area is

subarctic The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic, north of hemiboreal regions and covering much of Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the north of Fennoscandia, Northwestern Russia, Siberia, and the Cair ...

References

{{reflist Landforms of Siberia Chukotka Mountains Chaunsky District