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Coordinates: 62°41′26″N 174°51′45″E / 62.69056°N 174.86250°E

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Iomrautvaam Иомраутваам / Емрауткенваам
Course of the Iomrautvaam in the upper right
Mouth location in Chukotka Show map of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Iomrautvaam (Far Eastern Federal District)
Location
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
District	Anadyr District
Physical characteristics

Source
• location	Komeutyuyam Range
• elevation	ca 700 metres (2,300 ft)

Mouth	Khatyrka
• coordinates	62°41′26″N 174°51′45″E / 62.69056°N 174.86250°E / 62.69056; 174.86250
• elevation	60 metres (200 ft)
Length	103 km (64 mi)
Basin size	1,310 km² (510 sq mi)
Basin features
Progression	Khatyrka → Bering Sea

The Iomrautvaam (Russian: Иомраутваам; Chukot: Емрауткенваам) is a river in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The length of the river is 103 kilometres (64 mi) and the area of is drainage basin 1,310 square kilometres (510 sq mi).^[1]

The Iomrautvaam is the longest tributary of the Khatyrka river.^[2]

Course

The Iomrautvaam has its source in the Komeutyuyam Range of the Koryak Highlands. It flows in a roughly northeastern direction in the northern section of the range. Finally it meets the right bank of the Khatyrka 100 kilometres (62 mi) from its mouth, close to the northeastern end of the ridge.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Khatyrka meteorite

The Khatyrka meteorite, a unique-type of meteorite^[6] fell in the area of the Iomrautvaam river basin at 62°39′11″N 174°30′02″E / 62.65306°N 174.50056°E / 62.65306; 174.50056. It was found during an expedition to Chukotka in the summer of 2011 buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt and was named Khatyrka meteorite.^[7]^[8]

Flora and fauna

The river basin is characterized by tundra vegetation, including mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs, and sedges.^[9]

References

^ "Река Иомраутваам (Емрауткенваам) in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
^ ^a ^b Atlas of Russia
^ "Топографска карта P-59_60 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 19 February 2022.
^ Google Earth
^ Water of Russia - Хатырка
^ Cosmic sleuthing: An origin story for a really weird meteorite
^ Khatyrka meteorite, Iomrautvaam - Mindat.org
^ Звизда Т. В., Мануйлов А. А., Василенко А. М. Отчет о геологической съемке масштаба 1:50000 и поисках месторождений полезных ископаемых в бассейне нижнего течения р. Иомраутваам на территории листов Р-60-38-В, Г; 39-В. Анадырь, 1977. 221 с.
^ V. Yu. Neshataeva, Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6

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Khatyrka meteorite

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