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Key facts
- Location
- Taymyr Peninsula , Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District , Krasnoyarsk Krai , Russia
- Primary inflows
- Zapadnaya , Severnaya , Bikada-Nguoma , Yamu-Tarida , Kalamissamo , Upper Taymyra
- Primary outflows
- Lower Taymyra
- Catchment area
- 104,300 km (40,300 sq mi)
- Basin countries
- Russia
- Max length
- 204 km (127 mi)
- Max width
- 154 km (96 mi)
- Surface area
- 4,560 km (1,760 sq mi)
- Average depth
- 2.8 m (9.2 ft)
- Max depth
- 26 m (85 ft)
- Water volume
- 12.8 km (3.1 cu mi)
- Surface elevation
- 6 m (20 ft)
- Frozen
- late September until June
- Settlements
- none
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Area
- 4560
- Elevation
- 6
- Image
- Lake Taymyr 2017-07-20 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color.jpg
- Width
- 154
- Length
- 204
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- outflows
- Taymyra
- residence time of water
- 0.9
- vertical depth
- 2.8
- watershed area
- 104300
- volume as quantity
- 12.8
- basin country
- Russia
- Commons category
- Lake Taymyr
- different from
- Taymyr Peninsula
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Taymyr (Russian: Таймыр, Таймырское озеро, romanized: Taymyr, Taymyrskoye ozero) is a lake of the central regions of the Taymyr Peninsula in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation. It is located south of the Byrranga Mountains.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taymyr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.