Lake Dyupkun

Coordinates: 68°12′28″N 92°46′14″E / 68.207778°N 92.770556°E / 68.207778; 92.770556 Lake Dyupkun (Дюпкун) is a vast, isolated lake stretching for 90 kilometers in the southwest of the Putorana Plateau in Northern Siberia.[1] The Kureika River flows through the lake from south to north. It lies on marshy ground at the bottom of a valley and has an area of 199 km2.[2] The lake's left bank is the location of the Talnikovy Waterfall, claimed to be the highest in all of Asia.[3]

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The Kureika flowing out of Lake Dupkun
  1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopaedia
  2. ↑ http://textual.ru/gvr/index.php?card=221384
  3. ↑ http://talnikovy.ru/news/talnikovyj_vysochajshij_vodopad_rossii_foto/2011-01-07-5
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