Anabar Plateau
mountain range
The Anabar Plateau (Russian: Анабарское плато) is a mountain plateau in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Siberia, Russia.
The plateau is in a latitude dominated by permafrost. The permafrost thickness under the Anabar Plateau reaches 1,400 metres (4,600 ft).
Geography
The Anabar Plateau is located north of the Arctic Circle in northeastern Krasnoyarsk Krai and northwestern Sakha Republic, SSE of the Taymyr Depression, the central part of the North Siberian Lowland. It is located north of the Vilyuy Plateau and is the northernmost feature of the Central Siberian Plateau, to which it is connected in the southeast. To the southwest it runs into the higher Putorana Mountains, the border between both not being well-defined. The average height of the plateau surface is around 500 meters (1,600 ft). There are slightly higher tableland type elevations running across the plateau area, mostly in a roughly east to west direction. The highest point is a 905 metres (2,969 ft) high unnamed summit.
The Big Kuonamka, which forms the upper course of the Anabar River, has its source in the plateau and flows in a northeastern direction.
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