Byrranga Mountains

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Location of Byrrangagebirges

The Byrrangagebirge is a to 1125 m high, arctic mountainous area in northern Siberia (Russia ) on the Taimyr peninsula. Because the latter is the northernmost continental mainland part of the earth, the Byrrangagebirge is the northernmost mainland mountain range. The many places glaciated mountains in the northeast is dominated by tundra and is in the range of the permafrost and north of the July isotherm of 10 ° C.

The Byrrangagebirge extends an average of about 825 km beyond the Arctic Circle on the Taimyr peninsula between the mouth of Jenisseis ( Yenisei Bay ) in the Kara Sea and the Chatanga ( Chatangagolf ) in the Laptev Sea. It is about 1,100 km long and sometimes more than 200 km wide.

The Byrrangagebirge is divided into three parts: its south-western part lies between the Yenisei Bay and the opening out into the Kara Sea Pjassina and is up to 320 m high. Its central part is located between the Pjassina and Taimyra that flows through the mountains within the north-western Taimyrseearms, and is up to 671 m high. Its north-eastern part lies between the Taimyra and the Laptev Sea and is equipped with a maximum of 1125 m highest mountain part, in which hundreds of glaciers are a total of approximately 30 km ², of which some reach up to a minimum of about 600 m.

Among the many lakes of the Byrrangagebirges next to the large Taimyrsee heard the little Loewinson - Lessing Lake.