McClintock Island

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McClintock Island
Ostrov Mak-Klintoka (Остров Мак-Клинтока)
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 80 ° 9 ′  N , 56 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 9 ′  N , 56 ° 29 ′  E
McClintock Island (Franz Josef Land)
McClintock Island
length 31 km
width 25 km
surface 612 km²
Highest elevation 521  m
Residents uninhabited

The McClintock Island ( Russian Остров Мак-Клинтока ; Ostrow Mak-Klintoka ) is an uninhabited island in the arctic Franz Josef Land, which belongs to Russia .

geography

With an area of ​​612 km², the island is the seventh largest in the archipelago. It is roughly rectangular in shape, with a maximum length of about 31 kilometers and a width of about 25 kilometers. The McClintock Island is largely glaciated , the highest point being 521 m above sea level. The northernmost point of the island is Cape Greely (мыс Грили; Mys Grili), the south-easternmost the Cape Oppolzer (мыс Оппольцера; Mys Oppolzera).

history

McClintock Island was discovered in 1874 as part of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition led by Carl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer . It is named after the Irish Arctic explorer Francis Leopold McClintock .

Adjacent islands

  • The Alger Island (остров Алджер; Ostrow Aldscher) is about three kilometers north of the McClintock Island. The base camp of the failed Baldwin-Ziegler polar expedition of 1901/02 was on it.
  • The Brady Island (остров Брейди; ostrow Brejdi) Six kilometers north-west of McClintock Island. It was named after the English paleontologist , pharmacist and geologist Henry Bowman Brady . The northernmost point of Brady Island, Cape Meadow (мыс Визе; Mys Wise), bears the name of the Russian polar explorer Vladimir Juljewitsch Wiese .
  • Only a narrow strait (пролив Негри; Proliw Negri) separates the east bank of McClintock Island from Hall Island (остров Галля; Ostrow Gallja).
  • Directly off the south coast is a group of islets called the Borisjak Islands (острова Борисяка; Ostrowa Borisjaka), which are named after the Russian paleontologist Aleksei Aleksejewitsch Borisjak (1872-1944).
  • Aagaard Island (Остров Огорд; Ostrow Ogord) is five kilometers off the south coast of McClintock Island . It was named after Andreas Zacharias Aagaard (1847-1925), a Norwegian merchant and consul of Austria-Hungary in Tromsø at the time of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United Nations Environment Program , accessed February 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Arthur Montefiore: A Note on the Geography of Franz Josef Land. In: The Geographical Journal. 3, No. 6, 1894, pp. 492-497.
  3. ↑ Information on McClintock Island at www.franz-josef-land.info, accessed on February 8, 2016.