Iskhodnaya

Iskhodnaya
Исходная
Sentinel-2 image of the summit area.
Highest point
Elevation1,887 m (6,191 ft)
Prominence1,495 m (4,905 ft)
ListingRibu
Coordinates67°48′59″N 178°17′19″E / 67.81639°N 178.28861°E / 67.81639; 178.28861
Geography
Iskhodnaya is located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Iskhodnaya
Iskhodnaya
Location within Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
LocationChukotka Autonomous Okrug,
Russian Far East
Parent rangeChantal Range,
Chukotka Mountains

Iskhodnaya (Russian: Исходная) is a mountain in the Chantal Range. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.

Geography

This 1,887 m (6,191 ft) high mountain is the highest point of the Chukotka Mountains, part of the East Siberian System of ranges. It rises just above the northern bank of the high course of the Chantalvergyrgyn River.

The height of the summit is 1,887 metres (6,191 ft) according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. According to other sources it is 1,843 metres (6,047 ft) high. The same mountain is marked as a 6,081-foot-high (1,853 m) peak in the C-8 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation charts. The same map shows another peak that is 6,047-foot-high (1,843 m), just a short distance to the west in the same ridge of the Chantal Range.

Defense Mapping Agency topographical map of the Chukchi Sea, 1973

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chukchi Highlands Archived 30 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine / Great Russian Encyclopedia; in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . – M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
  2. ↑ https://worldribus.org/eastern-siberia/
  3. ↑ Google Earth
  4. ↑ Czukockie, Góry – Encyklopedia PWN – źródło wiarygodnej i rzetelnej wiedzy, encyklopedia.pwn.pl
  5. ↑ Wielka Encyklopedia Gór i Alpinizmu, tom 2 Góry Azji, Katowice: Wydawnictwo STAPIS, 2005, ISBN 83-88212-42-7.
  6. ↑ 1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8