Ekityki Lake


The Ekityki Lake is a lake in the Chukotka Mountains, in the Siberian Far East. It belongs to the Ekityki river basin and the Ekityki River flows through it.

Geography

The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow. Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year.
Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy whitefish is found.
This lake and the whole Ekityki river basin belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia.
topographical map of the Chukchi Sea, 1973