Geography

The Arctic is the Earth's northern polar area and includes the Arctic Ocean and its seas: the Greenland Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Beaufort Sea, as well as Baffin Bay, the Foxe Basin, numerous straits and bays of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the northern parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans; the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland, Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, Novosibirsk Islands and Wrangel Island, as well as the northern coasts of the continents of Eurasia and North America.

The Dagachukan River, which flows through the northeastern part of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, has been officially recognized and added to the State Catalogue of Geographic Names of Russia, the press service of the Yenisei District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory administration reported.

The river’s name comes from the Evenki language and translates as “very close.”

According to the report, the registration was based on detailed cartographic materials provided by the Krasnoyarsk regional office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadaster and Cartography (Rosreestr). The river’s name will now appear officially in government documents, maps and reference books.

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