Mus-Khaya Mountain
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Mus-Khaya Mountain is a mountain
in Sakha Republic and the highest point of Suntar-Khayata Range
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An elevation of ice-covered
summit is 2,959 m.
The mountain is located 485 km to the south of Arctic Circle
and 135 km to the southwest of Oymyakon
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The Mus-Khaya means Icy Mountain in Sakha language
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Mountain
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in Sakha Republic and the highest point of Suntar-Khayata Range
Suntar-Khayata Range
Suntar-Khayata Range is a granite mountain range rising along border of Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south.The highest point of the range is Mus-Khaya Mountain in Sakha Republic, 2959 m...
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An elevation of ice-covered
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
summit is 2,959 m.
The mountain is located 485 km to the south of Arctic Circle
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. For Epoch 2011, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator....
and 135 km to the southwest of Oymyakon
Oymyakon
Oymyakon is a village in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River, 30 kilometres northwest of Tomtor on the Kolyma Highway.-Geography:...
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The Mus-Khaya means Icy Mountain in Sakha language
Sakha language
Sakha, or Yakut, is a Turkic language with around 360,000 native speakers spoken in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation by the Sakha or Yakuts.Sakha is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony.-Classification:...
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