Jack London Lake (russian:
Озеро Джека Лондона, Ozero Dzheka Londona) is a mountain lake located in the
Yagodninsky District
Yagodninsky District (russian: Я́годнинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #1292-OZ and municipalLaw #511-OZ district (raion), one of the eight in Magadan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the oblast. ...
of
Magadan Oblast
Magadan Oblast ( rus, Магаданская область, r=Magadanskaya oblast, p=məgɐˈdanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Far East region of the country, and is adminis ...
,
Russia
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.
It was named in 1932 in honor of American writer, journalist and socialist activist
Jack London
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...
by Russian geologist P. Skornyakov, following the wish of
Yuri Bilibin
Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Били́бин; 19 May 1901 in Rostov – 4 May 1952 in Leningrad) was a Soviet geologist.
Biography
Between 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army. In 1926 he graduated f ...
, the head of the first geological expedition to Kolyma, who had expressed the idea to name one of the yet unnamed geographical locations in the
Far Northeast after the writer.
Geography
The lake lies above sea level between the
Angachak Range (russian: Ангачак) to the west and the
Uaza-Ina to the east, on the upper reaches of the
Kolyma basin. The outflow is the
Kiuyel-Sien, a
Kolyma River
The Kolyma ( rus, Колыма, p=kəlɨˈma; sah, Халыма, translit=Khalyma) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia.
The Kolyma is frozen ...
tributary.
The lake contains four islands. There is a
weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include tempera ...
on Vera Island (russian: Остров Вера).
Kolyma. Journey to Jack London Lake
/ref> The area of the lake is part of the Jack London Lake Nature Park, a protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
(national park).
See also
*List of lakes of Russia
List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order:
*Arakhley (Арахле́й)
*Baikal (Байкал)
*Baunt (Баунт)
* Beloye, Ryazan Oblast (Белое)
* Beloye, Vologda Oblast (Белое)
* Bokon (Бокон)
* Bolshoye Morskoye (Боль ...
References
External links
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Lakes of Magadan Oblast
Landforms of Siberia
Tourist attractions in Magadan Oblast
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