Как добраться. Транспорт
Самолетом нужно долететь до Хатанги, а оттуда на берег озера вездеходами, снегоходам или вертолетом.
Описание (английский)
Lake Taymyr is a lake of the central regions of the Taymyr Peninsula in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation. It is located south of the Byrranga Mountains.
Lake Taymyr is large, with a length of 165 km roughly east-to-west.
It has an irregular shape with many arms projecting in different
directions that cover a wide region. Its maximum width, however, is only
about 23 km in its broadest area which is towards the eastern end of
the lake.
Lake Taymyr is covered with ice from late September until June. The main river flowing into its basin, from the west, is the Upper Taymyra. Other rivers flowing into it are the Zapadnaya, Severnaya, Bikada Nguoma, Yamutarida and Kalamissamo. The Lower Taymyra River flows out of the lake northwards across the Byrranga mountain region.
The tundra areas south of Lake Taymyr are full of smaller lakes and
marshes. There are two quite large lakes east and southeast of the
easternmost part of Lake Taymyr, which is Yamuneru Bay: 33 km east is
Lake Kungusalakh, and 72 km southeast is Lake Portnyagino. Both lakes
are about 20 km across.
Lake Taymyr is teeming with many kinds of fish typical of cold Arctic waters, like loach, sig, and muksun. But there is overexploitation of some fish species despite the remoteness of the area.
Slight plutonium
contamination has been detected in the sediments of Lake Taymyr. This
is perhaps a consequence of wind-carried particles after the numerous
atmospheric nuclear tests in Novaya Zemlya during the Cold War.
Average water temperature in August: +7 °C. During winter, water temperature is slightly above 1 °C