Shelag Range
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.
The range was named after the Shelags, a little-known ethnic group that lived on the Arctic coast to the east of Cape Shelagsky.
Geography
The Shelag Range is a northwestern prolongation of the Chukotka Mountains and is the northernmost range of the system.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 river. The highest point is high Medvezhy Logovo peak.