Verkhoyansk Range

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In the southwest of the Verkhoyansk Mountains

The Verkhoyansk Mountains ( Russian Верхоянский хребет, scientific transliteration Verchojanskij Chrebet ) is located in the northeast of Russia ( Asia).

North and south of the Arctic Circle, lying in the center of Eastern Siberia bordering the Verkhoyansk Mountains as part of the East Siberian highlands and mainly in the center of the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) lying in the north to the Laptev Sea. In the northeast it passes to the lower reaches of Omoloi and Jana in the western part of the Jana - Indigirka lowlands and in the east, over the Kulargebirge and the further south highlands of Oymyakon in the Tscherskigebirge. In the southeast the landscape falls over two mountain foothills ( Suntar Chajata and Sette Daban ) from gradually Sea of ​​Okhotsk. In the south joins the coast to the Dschugdschurgebirge. In the south-west and west are the river valleys of the Aldans and the Lena, and thus the Mitteljakutische lowlands; Lena leads over to the southwest of the Lena Delta and north-west of the Verkhoyansk Mountains located Czekanowskibergen.

The nearly 1,200 -km high mountains extending from the Lena Delta to Aldan Creek Tompo. It runs pretty much parallel to the approximately 500 to 600 km further east past Tscherskigebirge; with the above- mentioned Suntar Chajata the sparsely populated mountain range is over 1,700 km long. In the north of the mountain reaches 2389 m altitude, in the middle of 2295 m and in the south by the foothills Suntar - Chajata belonging Mus Haya even 2959 m.

The high mountains separates the basins of Lena and Jana; in the northern part, approximately midway between the two mountains and on the latter river is the town of Verkhoyansk. In the central part of the Verkhoyansk Mountains Jana has its origins in the south of the Indigirka.