Siikteex

Siktyakh lies on the left bank of the lower Lena, opposite the mouth of the Kuranakh-Siktyakh. The tributary comes from the western side of the Verkhoyansk mountains, joining the great river downstream from the Uel-Siktyakh. Here, north of the Arctic Circle, the Lena winds through a broad valley on its way to the Laptev Sea. Forest and wetlands fringe its channels beneath the long northern winter.