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The highest density of pillars is reached between the villages of Petrovskoye and Tit-Ary. The Lena Pillars Nature Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2012. [1] The site lies around 180 kilometres (110 mi), less than a day's boat ride upriver (south) from the city of Yakutsk, the capital of the autonomous Sakha Republic. [2]
The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East and is the easternmost river of the three great rivers of Siberia, including the Ob River and the Yenisey River, which flow into the Arctic Ocean. [ note 1 ] The Lena river is 4,294 km (2,668 mi) long and has a capacious drainage basin of 2,490,000 km 2 (960,000 sq mi); thus the Lena is the eleventh ...
The Lena Pillars, lining the banks of river Lena in the region, are the most well-known of these features. They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. [3] Other protected areas in the plateau are the Sinyyaya Pillars by river Sinyaya, and the Turuuk Khaya Rocks by the Lyutenge River. [4]
Lena Pillars are a natural formation overlooking the Lena River. The pillars, reaching up to 200 metres (660 ft) in height, were formed by harsh continental climate with cold winters, with temperatures far below freezing, and hot summers, resulting in freeze-thaw action widening the intervening joints between the rocks.
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The river begins in the Tampa-Ottoowo, a small lake located in the Lena Plateau at an elevation of 278 metres (912 ft). It flows roughly southeastwards and there are about 3,300 lakes in its basin. In its lower course the river is flanked by picturesque rock formations, the Sinyaya Pillars.
Their 9-year-old sister Lena, Dee and Dale's only child together, had stayed at her cousin's house the night before and Dee hadn't yet called or come to get her. Rikkell Bock: Lena went everywhere ...
Lena Delta Nature Reserve (Russian: Усть-Ленский государственный природный заповедник) is a Zapovednik (“scientific nature reserve”) located in the delta of the Lena River in Sakha Republic, in the far north of eastern Siberia, Russia.