The Ekityki Lake is a lake in Chukotka

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , or Chukotka , is a federal subject of Russia located in the Russian Far East.Chukotka has a population of 53,824 according to the 2002 Census, and a surface area of . The principal town and the administrative center is Anadyr...

, in the Siberian Far East. It belongs to the Ekityki river basin and the Ekityki River

Ekityki River

The Ekityki River is a stream located in Chukotka, in Far East Siberia. It flows from Central Chukotka, across the Ekityki Lake into the right side of the Chantalveergyn River, a left-hand tributary of the Amguyema River....

 flows through it.

The shape of the Ekityki Lake is long and narrow (22 km in length and an average of 2 km in width). Like all lakes of the tundra, it is frozen for the greatest part of the year.

Lake Ekityki is the only location in the whole Eurasian continent where the Pygmy whitefish

Pygmy Whitefish

The pygmy whitefish, Prosopium coulterii, is a freshwater whitefish of the genus Prosopium in the family Salmonidae. Found in the mountain streams and lakes west of North America, it also has isolated populations in Lake Superior and in Ekityki Lake, Chukchi Peninsula.- Description :The pygmy...

 is found.http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.cfm?Country=Russian%20Federation&Genus=Prosopium&Species=coulterii

This lake and the whole Ekityki river basin belong to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , or Chukotka , is a federal subject of Russia located in the Russian Far East.Chukotka has a population of 53,824 according to the 2002 Census, and a surface area of . The principal town and the administrative center is Anadyr...

 administrative region of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

.