Mount Adelung (Russian: Гора Аделунга) is the highest peak in Pskem Mountains (Russian: Пскемский хребет) in the extreme north-east of the Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan.[2] Mount Adelung is the highest point of Tashkent Province at 4,301 m (14,111 ft), just 2 metres higher than the nearby Mount Beshtor, located a little further to the south-west in the same range, and it is often erroneously identified in various web sources as the "highest point in Uzbekistan". In fact, this honor goes to the Khazret Sultan, a peak with an altitude of 4,643 m in Surxondaryo Region, in the Uzbek part of the Gissar Range, on the border with Tajikistan, which was formerly known as Peak of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party.[3][4]
| Adelung | |
|---|---|
| гора Аделунга, Adelunga Toghi | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,301 m (14,111 ft)[1] |
| Listing | Mountains of Uzbekistan |
| Coordinates | 42°07′N 70°58′E / 42.117°N 70.967°E |
| Geography | |
  Adelung Location in Uzbekistan | |
| Country | Uzbekistan |
| Region | Tashkent |
| Parent range | Pskem Mountains |
Some web sources use the name Adelunga Toghi, where Adelunga corresponds to the Russian possessive form of Adelung and Toghi presumably stands for mountain in the Uzbek language (tog’ in Latin script, тоғ in Cyrillic script).[original research?] It is not known at this stage of writing which Adelung the mountain is named after.
References edit
- ^ "Topographic map of Adelunga Toghi". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
- ^ Physical map of Tashkent Region, Uzgeodezkadastr, Tashkent, 2002 (low resolution)
- ^ Atlas of the Soviet Central Asian Republics, Geodesy and Cartography Authority, Moscow, 1988, in Russian.
- ^ Administrative map of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Committee of Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography, and State Cadastre, Tashkent, 2007.
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