Ekityki Lake

Ekityki Lake
Озеро Экитыки
Location of the Ekityki Lake
Ekityki Lake
Location Chukotka
Coordinates 67°31′N 179°25′W / 67.517°N 179.417°W / 67.517; -179.417Coordinates: 67°31′N 179°25′W / 67.517°N 179.417°W / 67.517; -179.417
Primary inflows Ekityki River
Primary outflows Ekityki River
Basin countries Russia
Max. length 21 kilometres (13 mi)
Max. width 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi)

The Ekityki Lake (Russian: Озеро Экитыки; Ozero Ekityki) is a lake in Chukotka, in the Siberian Far East. It belongs to the Ekityki river basin and the Ekityki River flows through it.

Geography

The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow (21 kilometres (13 mi) in length and an average of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in width). Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year.[1]

Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy whitefish is found.[2]

This lake and the whole Ekityki river basin belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.

Defense Mapping Agency topographical map of the Chukchi Sea, 1973

See also

References

  1. "Ozero Ekityki". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. Prosopium coulterii


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