Siberian Tundra

The Chondon crosses the Yana–Indigirka lowland on its way to the Laptev Sea. Across this flat and gently undulating tundra, rivers meander in broad shallow valleys, leaving oxbow lakes, channels and islands. The middle and lower Chondon pass through especially marshy country. The plain slopes gradually northward, and its many lakes and waterlogged hollows are bound by ice through the long Arctic winter.