The Pegtymel (russian: Пегтымель) is a river in Far East Siberia,

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. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . It passes through the sparsely populated areas of the Siberian tundra and flows into the

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west of the

Long Strait The Long Strait (russian: пролив Лонга; ''Proliv Longa'') is a body of water in the Russian Federation. History This strait was named after the American whaling captain Thomas W. Long. In August 1983, it was the site of a disaster whe ...

. Its mouth is between

Cape Shelagsky Cape Shelagsky or Cape Shelag (russian: Мыс Шелагский; ckt, Ытрин, translit=Ytrin), also known as Erri by the Siberian Yupik, is a headland situated in eastern Siberia, Russia on the shores of the East Siberian Sea.Google Earth ...

on Chaunskaya Bay and

Cape Billings Cape Billings (russian: Мыс Биллингса - ''Mys Billingsa''), is a headland on the northern coast of Chukotka, Russian Federation to the west of Cape Schmidt. Geography The shore in the area around Cape Billings is bounded by narrow lan ...

to the east. Its most important tributary is the Kuvet which joins it from the right side. The Pegtymel and its tributaries belong to the

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka (russian: Чуко́тка), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,, ''Čukotkakèn avtonomnykèn okrug'', is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian ...

administrative region of

. There are ancient rock paintings on a site close to the Pegtymel. The

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show boats,

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

hunting, and mushroom-headed figures likely representing a ritual with th hallucinognic mushroom fly agaric (''Amanita muscaria'').

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Rivers of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Drainage basins of the East Siberian Sea Chukotka Mountains {{Russia-river-stub