The Koryak Mountains or Koryak Highlands () are an area of mountain ranges in Far-Eastern Siberia, Russia, located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and in Kamchatka Krai, with a small part in Magadan Oblast. The highest point in the system is the Mount Ledyanaya, located in the Ukelayat Range,Rundqvist N. Caprice of the wandering finger: Koryak Highlands // Walking Wide. - Yekaterinburg: Quist, 2014 .-- 576 p. in the central part of the mountains."Koryak Highlands". Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vols.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978

Geography The Koryak Mountains rise south of the Anadyr River, and northeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Koryak Highlands are one of the largest glacial systems in the northern part of the Russian Far East. There are numerous glaciers and ice fields in some of the ranges, with a total surface of .Osipova G. B. Koryak Highlands (glacial system) glaciers and snowfields // Popular Science Encyclopedia “Water of Russia”. Archived on May 31, 2019Water of Russia - Корякское нагорье (ледниковая система)

Subranges The system of the Koryak Mountains comprises a number of subranges,Oleg Leonidovič Kryžanovskij, A Checklist of the Ground-beetles of Russia and Adjacent Lands. p. 16 including: Vetvey Range, highest point Vaeg Range, highest point Pakhachin Range, highest point Apuk Range Vatyna Range Penzhina Range, highest point Gizhigin Range, highest point Ichigem Range, highest point Pylgin Range, highest point Olyutor Range, highest point Neprokhodimy Range, highest point Southern Mayn Range, highest point Snegovoy Range, highest point Pikas Range, highest point Ukelayat Range, highest point Komeutyuyam Range, highest point Koyverelan Range, highest point Rarytkin Range, at the northern end, close to Lake Krasnoye. Ukvushvuynen Range, highest point , the easternmost, close to Lake Pekulney.

Rivers Rivers Main, Khatyrka, Velikaya and Ukelayat, as well as the Penzhina, with its Oklan and Belaya tributaries, are among the main watercourses of the Koryak Mountains.

See also Shirshov Ridge

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