Lena Pillars

Lena Pillars Nature Park
UNESCO World Heritage Site
	The pillars seen from a river cruise boat.
Location	Sakha Republic, Russia
Includes	Buotamsky plot; Sinsky plot;
Criteria	Natural: (viii)
Reference	1299bis
Inscription	2012 (36th Session)
Extensions	2015
Area	1,387,000 ha (3,430,000 acres)
Coordinates	61°08′46″N 127°35′05″E / 61.14619°N 127.58471°E
	Location of Lena Pillars in Russia

The Lena Pillars (Russian: Ле́нские столбы́, tr. Lenskiye Stolby; Yakut: Өлүөнэ туруук хайалара, Ölüöne Turūk Khayalara) are a natural rock formation along the banks of the Lena River in far eastern Siberia. The pillars are 150–300 metres (490–980 ft) high, and were formed in some of the Cambrian period sea-basins. The highest density of pillars is reached between the villages of Petrovskoye and Tit-Ary. The Lena Pillars Nature Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2012.^[1]

The site lies around 180 kilometres (110 mi), less than a day's boat ride upriver (south) from the city of Yakutsk, the capital of the autonomous Sakha Republic.^[2]

^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Lena Pillars Nature Park". whc.unesco.org.
^ "Lena river trips – Sakha Yakutia – Heart of Siberia". www.yakutiatravel.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2008-12-04.

[1] Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Lena Pillars Nature Park". whc.unesco.org.

[2] "Lena river trips – Sakha Yakutia – Heart of Siberia". www.yakutiatravel.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2008-12-04.

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