Mount Payer | |
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Пайер | |
Location in
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,472 m (4,829 ft) [1] |
Prominence | 1,153 m (3,783 ft) [1] |
Isolation | 213.9 km (132.9 mi) [2] |
Coordinates | 66°43′15″N 64°23′30″E / 66.72083°N 64.39167°E [1] |
Geography | |
Location |
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia |
Parent range | Polar Urals |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | From Yeletsky, Kharp or Labytnangi |
Mount Payer ( Russian: Пайер) is a peak in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the highest point of the okrug and of the Polar Urals, as well as one of the highest of the wider Ural mountain system. [1]
The name of the mountain originated in the Nenets language "pai/er" (пай/ер), meaning "rock/master". [3] [4]
Mount Payer is a 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) high mountain located near the Arctic circle in the Polar Urals, a subrange of the Urals. It rises in the middle part of the range, in Shuryshkarsky District, near the border of the Komi Republic. [5] [6] The mountain has three peaks, the highest of which is a 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) high flat-topped rocky summit. The western peak is 1,330 metres (4,360 ft) high, and the eastern 1,217 metres (3,993 ft). [4]