Kuogastaax

Kuogastakh lies in the delta of the Yana, where the river divides into channels before reaching Yana Bay on the Laptev Sea. This low Arctic landscape is shaped by water and ice, with a short summer between long seasons of freezing. The Yana connects the delta with the interior of northeastern Siberia. Russian expeditions reached the river mouth in the 1630s, travelling eastward along the Arctic coast from the Lena.