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 The Anabar near the mouth of the Polovinnaya | |
 Anabar river basin | |
  Location of the mouthShow map of Sakha Republic Anabar (river) (Russia)Show map of Russia | |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Anabar Plateau |
| Mouth | Anabar Bay Laptev Sea |
| • coordinates | 73°12′19″N 113°33′24″E / 73.2052°N 113.5567°E / 73.2052; 113.5567 |
| Length | 939 km (583 mi) |
| Basin size | 100,000 km (39,000 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 498 m/s (17,600 cu ft/s) |
The Anabar (Russian: Анабар, romanized: Anabar, in its upper course: Большая Куонамка Bolshaya Kuonamka; Template:Lang-sah) is a river in Sakha, Russia. It is 939 kilometres (583 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi). The Anabar basin is located between the rivers Khatanga and Olenyok.
Course
The length of the Anabar is 939 km (583 mi), counting the 559 km (347 mi) long Bolshaya Kuonamka stretch of its upper course. Its sources are in the southern part of the Anabar Plateau, part of the Central Siberian Plateau. There are many lakes in its basin.
The mouth of the river is in the Anabar Bay. Its mean annual discharge is 564 cubic metres per second (19,900 cu ft/s), concentrated heavily in early summer when the ice that covers the river for most of the year thaws. The Uele river flows into the Laptev Sea close to the mouth of the Anabar, but it is not its tributary.
Tributaries
Its main tributaries are the 115 km (71 mi) long Mayat, the 342 km (213 mi) long Udya (Удьа), the 453 km (281 mi) long Malaya Kuonamka and the 108 km (67 mi) long Ebelyakh on the right, as well as the 262 km (163 mi) long Suolama, the 139 km (86 mi) long Kharabyl and the 103 km (64 mi) long Konnies on the left.
History
Historically Evenks have inhabited the basin of the Anabar River. Vasiliy Sychev was the first Russian to reach the river in 1643.
In present times the basin of the Anabar river is notable as the location of the largest concentration of diamond deposits in the world outside of Africa and Australia. These deposits made the Soviet Union into one of the world's largest producers of diamonds, and remain the economic mainstay of the area.
See also
References
- "Река Анабар (Бол. Куонапка) in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
- ^ Water of Russia - Анабар
- Google Earth
- Forsyth, James (1992). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian colony 1581-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Terence (2010). Russian Settlement in the North. Cambridge University Press.
- Holland, Clive (1994). Arctic Exploration and Development, c. 500 B.C. to 1915: an encyclopedia. New York: Garland.
External links
Media related to Anabar River at Wikimedia Commons
