The Shelag Range, Shelag Ridge () is a range of mountains in far Northeastern Russia. Administratively the range is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. The area of the range is desolate and uninhabited except for a few mining areas.mindat.org Shelagskiy Khrebet, Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, RussiaЧУКОТСКОЕ НАГОРЬЕ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия, bigenc.ru [dostęp 2019-06-30].
The range was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky. M. A. Sergeev, Экспедиция В.П. Врангеля и Ф.Ф. Матюшкина и изучение малых народов крайнего Северо-Востока. p. 416
Geography The Shelag Range is a northwestern prolongation of the Chukotka Mountains and is the northernmost range of the system.Google Earth This mountain chain runs in a roughly WNW/ESE direction for about , north of the Arctic Circle and parallel to the East Siberian Sea shore. Its western end is Cape Shelagsky and Chaun Bay and it is limited to the south by the Ichvuveyem Range, which rises by the Ichvuveyem river, beyond which lie the Chaun Lowlands. To the east the range is bound by the valley of the Keveyem (Кэвеем) river. The highest point is high Medvezhy Logovo peak.Gora Medvezh’ye Logovo: Russia
Flora The range has a barren look. The mountain slopes are covered with very little vegetation, mainly grasses, shrubs and "dwarf cedar", up to to . At higher elevations there is only rocky mountain tundra. The climate of the area is subarctic.
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