The Ekityki Lake (Russian: Озеро Экитыки; Ozero Ekityki) is a lake in the Chukotka Mountains, in the Siberian Far East. It belongs to the Ekityki river basin and the Ekityki River flows through it.
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Location | Chukotka |
Coordinates | 67°31′N 179°25′W |
Native name | Озеро Экитыки (Russian) |
Primary inflows | Ekityki River |
Primary outflows | Ekityki River |
Basin countries | Russia |
Max. length | 21 kilometres (13 mi) |
Max. width | 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) |
The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow (21 kilometres (13 mi) in length and an average of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in width). Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year.[1]
Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy whitefish is found.[2]
This lake and the whole Ekityki river basin belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.
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