The Taymyra (Russian: Таймыра) is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the middle of the Taymyr Peninsula.[2] It is about 840 kilometres (520 mi) long and has a drainage basin of 124,000 square kilometres (48,000 sq mi).[3][4]
The Taymyra is the most northerly river system of its size or greater, the largest river whose basin is wholly north of the Arctic Circle, and also the largest with a basin lying entirely above the polar tree line.[1]
^ abNilsson, Christer; Reidy, Catherine A.; Dynesius, Mats and Revenga Carmen; ‘Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World’s Large River Systems’; in Science; 15 April 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5720 pp. 405–408; DOI: 10.1126/science.1107887
^Encyclopedia - Taymyra
^Таймыра, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
^"Река Нижняя Таймыра (Таймыра) in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
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