Chara Sands
The Chara Sands, a desert in the middle of Siberia, as seen near Novaya Chara. The Kodar Mountains lie in the background.
The Chara Sands is an area of sand in Siberia near the Kodar and Udokan mountain ranges.[1] It is a small desert 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide by 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) long, located in the Charsk basin amid the valleys of Chara, Middle Sakukan and Upper Sakukan rivers. The rapid change from the pine and larch forests and peat bogs to the sand has no transition zone—this is one of the peculiarities of this unusual area, besides the roaming sand dunes and the oases that emerge among them.
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Chara Sands from orbit[1]
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Coordinates: 56°50′N 118°09′E / 56.84°N 118.15°E
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