Angachak Range

 ( Mountain Ranges Of Magadan Oblast ) 

The Angachak Range (; also "Большой Ангачак" —"Big Angachak") is a mountain range in the Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. Wielka Encyklopedia Gór i Alpinizmu, tom 2 Góry Azji, Katowice: Wydawnictwo STAPIS, 2005, . The nearest city is Susuman, and the nearest airport Susuman Airport.

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Geography The Angachak Range rises at the northern end of the Upper Kolyma Highlands, in the southernmost sector of the Chersky Range System. The range is bound by the Kolyma River valley from the south and in the north it connects with the main ridge of the Chersky Range. Formerly the highest summit was thought to be Pik Aborigen, but updated measurements have found that it wasn't high, but high. Thus the highest mountain of the range is high Gora Snezhnaya.

The range stretches in a roughly NW/SE direction for about . 1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet D-8 There are numerous rivers, waterfalls and lakes in the area. In the western part lies Lake Jack London, just beneath Pik Aborigen.Google Earth

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Flora and climate The slopes are covered by sparse larch taiga up to between and , above which grow Siberian pine thickets. The higher elevations have only mountain tundra.

The zone of the Angachak Range has a harsh continental subarctic climate. January temperatures vary from to . In summer the average July temperature does not exceed . There are often in the mountains, and snowstorms are also frequent.

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External links

• Far Eastern Entomologist No 153: 1-39 ISSN 1026-051X - October 2005
• Путешествие на хребет Большой Ангачак (озеро Джека Лондона). 14 дней в тайге! 100 км! часть ВТОРАЯ!
• Kolyma - Tourism

Categories: Mountain Ranges Of Magadan Oblast, Chersky Range, Tourist Attractions In Magadan Oblast

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