Ekityki

The Ekityki (Russian: Экитыки)[1] is a stream located in Chukotka, in Far East Siberia. It belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administrative region of Russia. It is 160 kilometres (99 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 10,300 square kilometres (4,000 sq mi).[2]

Ekityki
Location of the Ekityki course
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
MouthAmguema
 • coordinates
67°39′41″N 178°42′57″W
Length160 km (99 mi)
Basin size10,300 km2 (4,000 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionAmguema→ East Siberian Sea

The easternmost remains of woolly rhinoceroses (Coelodonta antiquitatis) have been found in the Ekityki river basin.[3]

Course

The Ekityki originates in the Chukotka Mountains. It makes its way eastwards through sparsely populated mountainous areas of the Eastern Siberian tundra. It flows across the Ekityki Lake into the left side of the Amguema in Central Chukotka. The Chantalvergyrgyn is a left tributary of the Ekityki.

Fauna

Salmon, whitefish, vendace, grayling, pike, rainbow herring (northwestern smelt), burbot, bull trout and loach are common in its waters.[4]

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gollark: Did you just randomly decide to calculate that?
gollark: Well, you can, or also "it would have about the same mass as the atmosphere".
gollark: Wikipedia says that spider silk has a diameter of "2.5–4 μm", which I approximated to 3μm for convenience, so a strand has a 1.5μm radius. That means that its cross-sectional area (if we assume this long thing of spider silk is a cylinder) is (1.5e-6)², or ~7e-12. Wikipedia also says its density is about 1.3g/cm³, which is 1300kg/m³, and that the observable universe has a diameter of 93 billion light-years (8.8e26 meters). So multiply the length of the strand (the observable universe's diameter) by the density of spider silk by the cross-sectional area of the strand and you get 8e18 kg, while the atmosphere's mass is about 5e18 kg, so close enough really.
gollark: Okay, so by mass it actually seems roughly correct.

See also

References
  1. Словарь названий гидрографических объектов России и других стран — членов СНГ, Federal Service for Geodesy and Cartography of Russia, 1999, p. 450
  2. Река Экитыки (Якитики) in the State Water Register of Russia (Russian)
  3. Wooly rhinoceros
  4. Tourism and Environmental data
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