Yanranaygytgyn

Yanranaygytgyn (; ) is a freshwater lake in Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth It has an area of and a catchment area of .

There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake.

The name of the lake in Chukot means "a lake near a separate mountain."Leontiev V.V. & Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House, 1989 .

Geography Yanranaygytgyn is located in the Chukotka Mountains, to the south of Ervynaygytgyn. The lake has a roughly triangular shape and there are three islands in the middle. The southern shore is indented and the lake narrows towards its northern end.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8

Yanranaygytgyn lies in an area of lakes at the northern edge of the Amguema Valley. It is the largest of the cluster, together with lake Kontalyagytgyn that lies to the southwest. An unnamed river, a small tributary of the Amguema, flows out of the lake from the northern end. Yanranaygytgyn freezes in mid-September and stays under ice until June.Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Water of Russia

Flora and fauna Yanranaygytgyn is surrounded by tundra. Arctic char is common in the waters of the lake.Travel and flyfishing in the Russian Far East

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