Khantai Lake
Krasnoyarsk Territory, south of the Taimyr Peninsula, near the village of Khantaiskoe
Description:
Lake Khantai is located in the southern part of the Taimyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the third deepest lake in Russia after Lake Baikal and the Caspian Sea.
Other names of the lake, found in various sources - Kutarmo or Big Khantai.
Also near the lake is the village of the same name.
The depth of Khantai Lake is 420 meters, the length is about 80 km, and the width is 25 km. The total area of the reservoir is 822 square kilometers.
The lake is located in the western part of the Putorana plateau, in a rather narrow basin of tectonic-glacial origin.
The lake is connected by a short channel with the Small Khantai Lake, which is the source of the Khantayka River, the right tributary of the Yenisei River.
Khantai Lake is located in the area above the Arctic Northern Circle, in the zone of tundra-lesotundra zone of permafrost. The surroundings of the lake were explored by the expeditions of A. Sotnikov (1915) and N. Urvantsev (1919).