[2][3] 2,959 metres (9,708 ft) high Mus-Khaya Mountain, located in the Sakha Republic, is the highest point of the range.

Mount Khakandya (Гора Хакандя)[4] is an ultra-prominent peak that is 2,615 metres (8,579 ft) high.

Until mid 20th century it was treated as a separate range, together with the Skalisty Range, highest point 2,017 metres (6,617 ft), and the Sette Daban, highest point 2,017 metres (6,617 ft), to the southwest.

The Suntar-Khayata is a watershed divide between the Aldan River, of the Lena basin, and the Indigirka —both of the Arctic Ocean, and the Sea of Okhotsk.

A small population of Brown Dippers (Cinclus pallasi) winters at a hot spring in the Suntar-Khayata Range.