Mount Adelung

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Adelung
гора Аделунга, Adelunga toghi
Adelung (Uzbekistan)
Adelung
Adelung
Location in Uzbekistan
Coordinates: 42°07′N 70°58′E / 42.117, 70.967
Country ‎ Uzbekistan
Province Tashkent Province
Elevation 4,301 m (14,111 ft)
Mt. Adelung is the highest point in Tashkent Province, but NOT the highest point in Uzbekistan.

Mount Adelung (Russian: гора Аделунга) is the highest peak in Pskem Range (Russian: Пскемский хребет) in extreme north-east of Uzbekistan's Tashkent Province.[1],[2] Mount Adelung is 4,301 m high, just a touch higher than the nearby Mount Beshtor located a little further to the south-west in the same range (4,299 m), and it is often erroneously identified in various web sources as the "highest point in Uzbekistan". In fact, this honor goes to a 4,643 m peak in Surkhandarya Province, in the Uzbek part of the Gissar Range, on the border with Tajikistan, which was formerly known as Peak of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party[3] and is now apparently unnamed.[4]

Some web sources use the name Adelunga Toghi, where Adelunga corresponds to the Russian possessive form of Adelung and Toghi presumably stands for mountain in the Uzbek language (tog’ in Latin script, тоғ in Cyrillic script). It is not known at this stage of writing which Adelung the mountain is named after.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mountaineering map of Pskem Range area, north-east Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan
  2. ^ Physical map of Tashkent Province, Uzgeodezkadastr, Tashkent, 2002 (low resolution)
  3. ^ Atlas of the Soviet Central Asian Republics, Geodesy and Cartography Authority, Moscow, 1988, in Russian.
  4. ^ Administrative map of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Committee of Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography, and State Cadastre, Tashkent, 2007.

Coordinates: 42°07′N, 70°58′E

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