The Oymyakon Plateau (, ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.
The plateau is in the area of the famous Oymyakon Depression, where record low temperatures are registered, although the region is about to the south of the geographic North Pole.
The Oymyakon Plateau is one of the areas of Sakha Republic where are found.[ Кисиляхи]
Geography
The Oymyakon Plateau is located in the eastern Sakha Republic, in the upper course of the
Indigirka River.
[Google Earth] Together with the
Yana Plateau to the north, and the
Elgi Plateau to the northwest, it is part of the Yana—Oymyakon Highlands.
The plateau is limited by the
Chersky Range to the east and by the Suntar-Khayata and the
Tas-Kystabyt range of the Verkhoyansk Range to the west, connecting both mountain regions. The highest elevations are found in the mountain massifs rising above the plateau; the highest point is high
Dzhakai-Tasa.
Climate and flora
The elevation of the plateau surface has two clearly delimited zones and in the intermontane basins, frosty air is trapped in the winter creating inversions. This leads to an average nighttime temperature in January of about -50 °C in some areas.
There are taiga type forests of larch up to and mountain tundra in the higher elevations.[Оймяконское плоскогорье, Great Soviet Encyclopedia]
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