Ichigem Range
Ичигемский Хребет
View of the Penzhina with the Ichigem Range in the background
Highest point
PeakUnnamed
Elevation1,465 m (4,806 ft)[1]
Coordinates63°18′31″N 165°33′54″E / 63.30861°N 165.56500°E / 63.30861; 165.56500[1]
Dimensions
Length400 km (250 mi) E/W
Width100 km (62 mi) N/S
Geography
Ichigem Range is located in Kamchatka Krai
Ichigem Range
Location in Kamchatka Krai
Ichigem Range is located in Far Eastern Federal District
Ichigem Range
Ichigem Range (Far Eastern Federal District)
LocationMagadan Oblast
Kamchatka Krai, Russia
Range coordinates63°40′N 164°0′E / 63.667°N 164.000°E / 63.667; 164.000
Parent rangeKoryak Highlands
East Siberian Mountains
Geology
OrogenyAlpine orogeny
Age of rockCretaceous[2]
Climbing
Easiest routeFrom Kamenskoye

The Ichigem Range (Russian: Ичигемский Хребет) is a range of mountains in Magadan Oblast and Kamchatka Krai, Russian Far East.

Administratively most of the range falls within the Penzhinsky District of Kamchatka Krai, but the western end reaches into the Severo-Evensky District of Magadan Oblast.[3]

History

The area of the Ichigem Range was first mapped by geographer and ethnologist Baron Gerhard von Maydell (1835–1894) during his pioneering research of East Siberia.[4]

Geography

The Ichigem Range is the northwesternmost range of the Koryak Highland system.[5] It stretches from WSW to ENE between the upper Penzhina valley to the north and the basin of the Oklan, a Penzhina right tributary, to the south. The Kolyma Mountains rise at the western limit of the range and the waterlogged lower Penzhina valley marks its eastern end.[3] The mountains of the Ichigem are of moderate altitude. They are covered with tundra vegetation and have a barren look. The highest point of the range is an unnamed 1,465 metres (4,806 ft) high peak, located in the central sector of the range.[6]

There are numerous vestiges of ancient glaciation in the Ichigem Range, but no modern glaciers. River Oklan has its sources in Mount Stolovaya of the western part of the Ichigem and flows roughly eastwards along the southern limits of the range, beyond which rises the Oklan Plateau (Окланское плато).[1][6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Atlas of Russia
  2. ↑ Калясников Ю.А. Наноминералогия воды и биосферные процессы. Публикуется по тексту: Калясников Ю.А. Наноминералогия воды и биосферные процессы: 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Магадан: СВНЦ ДВО РАН, 2000. 64 с.
  3. 1 2 Google Earth
  4. ↑ Siberian History - МАЙДЕЛЬ Гергард Людвигович
  5. ↑ Mark Nuttall ed. Encyclopedia of the Arctic, p. 1054
  6. 1 2 "Топографска карта P-57_58 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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