Koryak Mountains
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| Highest peak | Ledjanaja ( 2562 m ) | |
| location | Kamchatka , Chukotka Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) | |
| part of | East Siberian mountain country | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° N , 172 ° E | |
The Koryak Mountains ( Russian Корякское нагорье ) are located in the Far East Federal District in the far east of Russia ( Asia ).
There it borders as part of the East Siberian Mountains in the north on the Anadyr Lowland and in the northeast on the Anadyr Plateau . To the east it slopes down to the Bering Sea , which is the northernmost part of the Pacific and separates Asia from America . The Sredinnyj ridge of Kamchatka connects to the south . In the west it gradually goes over some highland areas into the Kolyma Mountains .
There the barely inhabited and around 750 km long high mountains in the Ledjanaja ( ⊙ ) rise up to 2,562 m. The rivers Velikaya and Talovka have their source in the Koryak Mountains .
literature
- N. Schilo among others: Sewer Dalnego Wostoka . Nauka, Moscow 1970, p. 58 ff. (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Korjakengebirge in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)