Baunt
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| Geographical location | Stanovoi Highlands ( Russia ) | |
| Tributaries | Upper Zipa , Zipikan | |
| Drain | Lower Zipa | |
| Places on the shore | Baunt | |
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 11 ′ N , 113 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1059 m | |
| surface | 165 km² | |
| length | 18 km | |
| width | 9 km | |
| Maximum depth | 33 m | |
| Middle deep | 17 m | |
The Baunt ( Russian озеро Баунт / osero Baunt ; Bauntsee ) is a 165 km² mountain lake on the southeastern edge of the Stanovoi Highlands in Eastern Siberia ( Russia ), east of Lake Baikal .
Location and general
The lake lies in a depression extending in a southwest-northeast direction parallel to the main ridge of the northwestern southern Muja Mountains (Yuzhnomuisk Mountains) , which separates it from the southeastern Witim plateau . The length of the lake is 18 km, its greatest width 9 km, the maximum depth 33 m.
The north-western shore of the lake, located at an altitude of 1059 m (according to older information, 1060 m ) is steep and rocky - the mountains rise here immediately to over 1400 m , as does part of the south bank. The southwest and east banks, on the other hand, are flat and swampy, with a large number of other small lakes. In the southwest end of the lake, there opens Upper Zipa called Zipa into two arms, the southern New Zipa (Novaya Zipa) is called. The second major tributary, the Zipikan, flows from the east . In the extreme northeast, the Zipa flows from the lake, on which follows as the Lower Zipa the lake. Eight kilometers southwest of the lake, the mountain Bolshoi Chapton (Great Chapton) rises to 2284 m .
At the northeast end of the lake is the small settlement Baunt named after him , not far from the southwest end on the Zipa the "spa town Baunt" (also called Gorjatschi Kljutsch, "hot spring") with some hot springs. Both are now districts of rural settlement Zipikan of Rajons Baunt the Republic of Buryatia . During the Russian expansion into Siberia in the 17th century built Cossacks near the Baunt 1652 a Ostrog as one of the first on the other side of Lake Baikal.
Web links
- Baunt on the website Nature of Baikal (Russian, photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Soviet topographic map 1: 200,000. Sheet N-49-XI, edition 1984 and sheet N-49-XII, edition 1989/1994
- ↑ Article Baunt in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)