Moma Mountains
| Moma Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | at the Arctic Circle ( 2533 m ) | |
| location | Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) | |
| part of | East Siberian mountain country | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 36 ' N , 144 ° 46' E | |
The Momagebirge ( Russian Момский хребет , Wiss. Transliteration Momskij Chrebet , Yakut сиһэ Муома , Muoma sihe ) is one to 2533 m high mountains of eastern Siberia highlands in the Russian Republic Sacha (Jakutien) in Northeast Siberia .
To the north and south of the Arctic Circle , the high mountains border in the north on the Jana-Indigirka lowlands (western part of the East Siberian lowlands ). In the east it goes over the valley of the Kolyma into the Jukagiren plateau . In the south and west the mountains are surrounded by the Moma and Indigirka rivers . Beyond the Moma, the Tscherski Mountains join in the south .
The almost 350 km long high mountains lie between the catchment areas of the Indigirka and the Kolyma, both of which flow into the Arctic Ocean . The Badjaricha and Oschogina rivers drain the mountains to the north.
literature
- A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 359. (Russian)
Web links
- Moma Range in the North Encyclopedia (English)
- Article Momagebirge in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)