Kondakov plateau
| Kondakov plateau | ||
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| Highest peak | Punga-Chaja ( 498 m ) | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 19 ′ N , 149 ° 18 ′ E | |
The Kondakov Plateau ( Russian Кондаковское плоскогорье , Kondakowskoje ploskogorje) is a low mountain range up to 498 m high, about 200 by 150 km in size in the northeast of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of Siberia and Russia ( Asia ) .
Geographical location
The Kondakov Plateau is a rocky mountain range on average around 450 km north of the Arctic Circle between Jana Indigirka Lowlands and Kolyma Lowlands , the western and eastern parts of the East Siberian Lowlands , which in turn are west, south and east of the East Siberian Highlands and north of the Laptev Sea (Rand Sea of the Arctic Ocean ) is surrounded.
The mountains drop to the north and northeast into the mouth of the Indigirka delta . To the east lies the Kolyma lowland, which is mainly traversed by the Kolyma , but also by the Sundrun, which rises in the neighboring Ulachan-Sis ridge . The landscape leads to this mountain range over the river valleys of the Great Ertscha and the north-east of this flowing Schandrin . In western directions it descends into the Jana Indigirka lowlands, through which the Indigirka flows.
The higher mountain ranges of the Kondakov plateau include the northern Bonga-Taga ridge and the southern Moxolukan Mountains, and the highest mountain is Punga-Chaja ( 498 m ) in its western part .
Geology, flora and fauna
From a geological point of view, the Kondakov Plateau consists of sandstones , silts and slates from the Upper Jura . Due to the proximity of the Arctic Laptev Sea, permafrost prevails with vegetation of moss and lichen typical of the tundra .
Localities
The Kondakov plateau is uninhabited, but are on the Indigirka the villages Vorontsovo and Olenegorsk in the southwest and Chajagasmach and Schamanowo the west and Chokurdakh the airfield Chokurdakh .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main part of the mountain range (with Punga-Chaja mountain) ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. according to the topographic map (1: 200.000, p. R-55-XVII, XVIII, edition 1989)
- ↑ a b Location: Punga-Chaja , highest mountain on the Kondakov plateau on google maps
- ↑ a b Article Kondakov Plateau in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
