Iskhodnaya (russian: link=no, Исходная), is a mountain in the

Chantal Range The Chantal Range (russian: Чантальский хребет) is a range of mountains in far North-eastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. The area of the range is desolate ...

. Administratively it is part of the

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This high mountain is the highest point of the Chukotka Mountains, part of the

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of ranges.Chukchi Highlands
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, 2004—2017. It rises just above the northern bank of the high course of the Chantalvergyrgyn River.

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The height of the summit is according to the

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. According to other sources it is high.Wielka Encyklopedia Gór i Alpinizmu, tom 2 Góry Azji, Katowice: Wydawnictwo STAPIS, 2005, . The same mountain is marked as a peak in the C-8 sheet of the

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Navigation charts. The same map shows another peak that is , just a short distance to the west in the same ridge of the Chantal Range.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8
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