Luetke Island

Luetke Island
	Map of the southeastern islands of Franz Josef Land with Lütke Island
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Franz Josef Land
Geographical location	79 ° 54 ' N , 59 ° 54' E Coordinates: 79 ° 54 ' N , 59 ° 54' E
length	3.6
width	2.6
surface	8 km²
Highest elevation	85 m
Residents	uninhabited

The Lütke Island ( Russian Остров Литке ; Ostrow Litke) is the southeasternmost island in the arctic Franz Josef Land . Administratively, like the entire archipelago, it belongs to the Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

The island is located southeast of Salm Island and is separated from it by the 4.2 km wide Framsund. It is round in shape, 3.6 km long and 2.6 km wide. Their area is around 8 km². The Lütke Island is covered by an 85 m high ice cap that extends almost everywhere to the coast.

history

The Lütke Island is one of the first to be discovered by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in 1873 . The expedition ship Admiral Tegetthoff had drifted with the pack ice up to Wilczek Island, 17 km to the east . From here the archipelago was explored by Julius Payer on three sleigh journeys in autumn 1873 and in spring 1874. Payer gave the island its name in memory of Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke , a Baltic German officer in the Russian Navy, who mapped the Novaya Zemlya coast from 1821 to 1824 .

literature

Julius Payer: The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872–1874, together with a sketch of the second German North Pole expedition 1869–1870 and the polar expedition of 1871 , Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1876.

Web links

Topographic map U-40-IV, V, VI (scale 1: 200,000)