Akbet | |
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Ақбет | |
![]() View from the summit towards the west | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,022 m (3,353 ft)[1] |
Coordinates | 50°50′36″N 75°39′46″E / 50.84333°N 75.66278°E[1][2] |
Geography | |
Country | Kazakhstan |
Region | Pavlodar Region |
District | Bayanaul District |
Parent range | Bayanaul Range; Kazakh Uplands |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | from Bayanaul |
Akbet (Kazakh: Ақбет) is a mountain in Bayanaul District, Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan.
Akbet is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) to the NNW of Bayanaul.[2] According to local folklore, the mountain is named after a Kazakh girl who killed herself there after having been given in marriage to a man she did not love.[3]
Geography
[edit]Akbet rises in the Bayanaul Range, a subrange of the Kazakh Uplands (Saryarka). The mountain has generally gentle slopes, but rocky and strongly dissected on the western side, where there is a gorge with springs. With an elevation 1,022 metres (3,353 ft), it is the highest mountain in the Bayanaul Range, as well as the highest point of Pavlodar Region.[4][1][2]
Geologically the peak is made up of Silurian and Devonian granite, syenite, porphyry and shale.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "M-43 Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- ^ a b c Google Earth
- ^ Bayanaul legends. Bayanaul
- ^ a b Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — Almaty: «Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0(T.Z.),ISBN 9965-893-19-5