Chankasee
| Chankasee | ||
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| Landsat image of Lake Chanka | ||
| Geographical location | Primorye Region ( Russia ), Heilongjiang ( PR China ) | |
| Tributaries | Ilistaja , Komissarowka , Melgunowka , Spassowka | |
| Drain | Sungacha | |
| Places on the shore | Kamen-Rybolov | |
| Location close to the shore | Spassk-Dalni , Chernigovka , Chorol | |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 1 ′ N , 132 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 68 m | |
| surface | 4th 190 km² | |
| length | 95 km | |
| Maximum depth | 10.6 m | |
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| Sandy beach on Lake Chanka | ||
The Lake Khanka (also Xingkai Lake ; Russian Озеро Ханка / Ozero Khanka ; Chinese 興凱湖 / 兴凯湖 , Pinyin Xīngkǎi Hú ) is one of the largest lakes in Asia .
It is located in the border area between the People's Republic of China and eastern Siberia ( Russia ).
The lake is about 95 kilometers long and with an area of approximately 4190 km² (72% of which, 3030 km² in Russia), eight times the size of Lake Constance. Larger tributaries are Ilistaja , Komissarowka , Melgunowka and Spassowka . The Sungacha River , tributary of the Ussuri , acts as a drain. For many years, the only rice grown in the former Soviet Union was planted in the bank area on the Siberian side . This area was one of the most fertile soils in all of Siberia, where besides rice, grain, soybeans and tomatoes were grown. At the same time, Lake Chankasee is the breeding ground for the red-crowned crane , one of the rarest cranes in the world. On the Russian side, five nature reserves, isolated from one another and surrounded by agricultural land, the Lake Chanka Reserve, were set up. In the northeast of the lake, these nature protection zones collide with the Xingkai-Hu Reserve on the Chinese side. Here, too, the region belongs to the region's valuable arable land.
The lake is increasingly being developed for tourism by the Chinese.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Article Chankasee in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Peter Matthiessen : The Kings of the Skies - Journeys with Cranes , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18195-7 , p. 51.
- ↑ Khanka Lake - the Largest Freshwater Lake in Northeast Asia , Khanka Lake, is a freshwater lake located on the border between Russia and China (accessed August 9, 2014); a travel report from the Russian shore: Axel Wölk: From Samovar, Siberian and sea air: Russian encounters in the Trans-Siberian. BoD, 2012, p. 59.