Byrranga Mountains
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| Highest peak | Lednikowaja Gora ( 1121 m ) | |
| location | Krasnoyarsk region , Russia | |
| part of | Taimyr Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° N , 108 ° E | |
The Byrranga Mountains are up to 1121 m (according to other information 1125 m ) high, arctic low mountain range in northern Siberia ( Russia ) on the Taimyr peninsula . Because the latter is the northernmost continental mainland part of the world, the Byrranga Mountains are the northernmost mainland mountain range. The mountains , which are glaciated in many places in the northeast , are dominated by the tundra and lie in the area of the permafrost and north of the July isotherm of 10 ° C.
The Byrranga Mountains extend on average about 825 km beyond the Arctic Circle on the Taimyr Peninsula between the mouth of the Yenisei ( Yenisei Bay ) in the Kara Sea and the Chatanga ( Chatangagolf ) in the Laptev Sea . It is about 1,100 km long and up to 180 km wide in the northeast.
The Byrranga Mountains are divided into three parts: Its south-western part lies between the Yenisei Bay and the Pjassina, which also flows into the Kara Sea, and is a maximum of 320 m high. Its central part is located between the Pjassina and the Taimyra , which flows through the mountains as part of the northwestern Taimyr Sea arm , and is up to 671 m high. Its north-eastern part lies between the Taimyra and the Laptev Sea and, with a maximum of 1121 m, is the highest part of the mountain, in which there are hundreds of glaciers with a total area of around 30 km², some of which reach a minimum of around 600 m .
One of the numerous lakes in the Byrranga Mountains is the large Taimyrsee and the small Loewinson-Lessing Lake .
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonid M. Baskin: Byrranga Mountains . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 298–299 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Topographic map (1: 1,000,000, p. S-49-III, IV, ed. 1987)
- ↑ Topographic map (1: 1,000,000, p. S-47,48, edition 1986)