Lake Elgygytgyn

Lake Elgygytgyn is an effect pit lake situated in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in upper east Siberia, around 150 km 93 mi southeast of Chaunskaya Bay. "Elgygytgyn" signifies "white lake" in the Chukchi dialect. The lake is specifically compelling to researchers since it has never been secured by ice sheets. This has permitted the continuous develop of 400 m 1,300 ft of dregs at the base of the lake, recording data on ancient environmental change. Lake El'gygytgyn is depleted toward the southeast by the Enmybaam part of the Belaya River.

Before it was dependably dated, primer papers in the late 1970s proposed either Elgygytgyn or Zhamanshin as the wellspring of the youthful Australasian strewnfield. Fish species in the lake are adjusted to its extremely cool waters, which are commonly simply over the point of solidification, and go through the vast majority of the year in all out murkiness. The surface is solidified for around 10 months of the year. It might begin to dissolve in the late spring, however a few years it never completely thaws.