Everything about Yana River totally explained
Yana River, a
river in
Sakha in
Russia, located between the
Lena to the west and the
Indigirka to the east.
It is 872
km in length. The
area of its
basin is 238,000 km², whilst its annual discharge totals approximately 25 cubic kilometres (20 million
acre-feet). Most of this discharge occurs in May and June as the ice on the river breaks up. The Yana freezes up on the surface in October and stays under the ice until late May - early June. In the
Verkhoyansk area, it stays frozen to the bottom for 70 to 110 days, and partly frozen for 220 days of the year.
The river begins at the
confluence of the rivers
Sartang and
Dulgalakh. As the Yana flows into the
Yana Bay of the
Laptev Sea, it forms a huge
river delta (10,200 km²). There are approximately 40,000
lakes in the Yana basin, including both alpine lakes formed from
glaciation in the
Verkhoyansk Mountains (lowlands were always too dry for glaciation) and overflow lakes on the marshy plains in the north of the basin. The whole Yana basin is under
continuous permafrost and most is
larch woodland grading to
tundra north of about 70°N, though
trees extend in suitable microhabitats right to the delta.
The principal
tributaries of the Yana are:
Adycha,
Oldzho,
Abyrabyt,
Bytantay. Most of these tributaries are short rivers flowing from the high Verkhoyansk Mountains.
Verkhoyansk,
Batagay,
Ust-Kuyga,
Nizhneyansk are the main ports on the Yana.
The Yana basin is the site of the so-called
Pole of Cold of Russia, where the lowest recorded temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are found. In the winter, temperatures in the centre of the basin average as low as -51 °C and have reached as low as -71 °C — though in the mountains it's believed that temperatures have reached -82 °C.
Yakut folklore says that, at such temperatures, if you shout to a friend and they can't hear you, it's because the words have frozen in the air. However, when spring comes the words "thaw" and one can hear everything that was said months ago.
History
The Yana River area is the first known site of human habitation in the
Arctic, with evidence of habitation found in the delta from as early as 30,000 years ago (12,000 years before the height of the last period of
glaciation, or the
Last Glacial Maximum).
In 1892-1894
Baron Eduard Von Toll, accompanied by expedition leader Alexander von Bunge, carried out geological surveys in the basin of the Yana (among other Far-eastern Siberian rivers) on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. During one year and two days the expedition covered 25,000 km, of which 4,200 km were up rivers, carrying out geodesic surveys en route.
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