Anjui Mountains
Anjui Mountains | ||
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Highest peak | Peak Blokhina ( 1779 m ) | |
location | Chukchi Autonomous Okrug (Russia) | |
part of | East Siberian mountain country | |
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Coordinates | 67 ° 12 ′ N , 165 ° 51 ′ E |
The Anjuigebirge ( Russian Анюйский хребет ), also Southern Anjuigebirge ( Russian Южно-Анюйский хребет ), is a high mountain range up to 1853 m high in the Autonomous Okrug of the Chukchi in the northeast of Siberia and Russia ( Asia ).
The Anjuigebirge lies east of the Kolyma and is bordered by the rivers Großer Anjui in the south and Kleiner Anjui in the north. The ridge has a length of about 380 km. The highest point is the 1779 m high Pik Blokhina (Пик Блохина) ( ⊙ ). As part of the East Siberian Mountains , the Anjuigebirge borders the Anadyr Plateau in the east . In the south lies the Kolyma Mountains and in the west the Kolyma lowlands (eastern part of the East Siberian lowlands ).
The high mountains are hardly inhabited.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Anjuigebirge in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)