Ekityki Lake

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Ekityki Lake
Location Chukotka
Coordinates 67°31′N 179°25′WCoordinates: 67°31′N 179°25′W
Primary inflows Ekityki River
Primary outflows Ekityki River
Basin countries Russia
Max. length 22 km

The Ekityki Lake (Russian: Ozero Ekityki) is a lake in Chukotka, in the Siberian Far East. It belongs to the Ekityki river basin and the Ekityki River flows through it.

The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow (22 km in length and an average of 2 km in width). Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year.

Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy whitefish is found.[1]

This lake and the whole Ekityki river basin belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.

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