Ioni
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Lake Ioni (), also known as Yonai (), (, Yunin) is a large freshwater lake in Chukotsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has an area of . Currently there are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake, but there are remains of Stone Age dwellings. Reindeer herders occasionally visit the area, as well as fishermen. The nearest inhabited place is Lorino, located away.
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Lake Ioni (), also known as Yonai (), (, Yunin) is a large freshwater lake in Chukotsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has an area of . Currently there are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake, but there are remains of Stone Age dwellings. Reindeer herders occasionally visit the area, as well as fishermen. The nearest inhabited place is Lorino, located away.
==Geography== The lake is located in the center of the Chukotka Peninsula, south of Kolyuchin Bay. Ioni is the largest lake in its district. It lies in the Mechigmen-Kolyuchin basin, a large intermontane basin of the western part of the Chukotka Mountains. high Mount Ioni rises to the NW of the lake.
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