Iskhodnaya | |
Other Name: | Исходная |
Elevation M: | 1887 |
Location: | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East |
Map: | Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug |
Map Size: | 260 |
Range: | Chantal Range, Chukotka Mountains |
Coordinates: | 67.8164°N 178.2886°W |
Iskhodnaya (Russian: link=no|Исходная), is a mountain in the Chantal Range. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.
This 1775m (5,823feet) high mountain is the highest point of the Chukotka Mountains, part of the East Siberian System of ranges.[1] It rises just above the northern bank of the high course of the Chantalvergyrgyn River.[2]
The height of the summit is 1887m (6,191feet) according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.[1] According to other sources it is 1843m (6,047feet) high.[3] [4] The same mountain is marked as a 6081feet peak in the C-8 sheet of the Defense Mapping Agency Navigation charts. The same map shows another peak that is 6047feet, just a short distance to the west in the same ridge of the Chantal Range.[5]