Bolshevik Island

Bolshevik Island
Akhmatova Fjord on Bolshevik Island
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location	78 ° 32 '  N , 102 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 78 ° 32 '  N , 102 ° 19'  E
length	149 km
width	79 km
surface	11,312 km²
Highest elevation	Leningrad ice cap 874  m
Residents	uninhabited
Location of the island (in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago )

The Bolshevik Island ( Russian остров Большевик , Ostrow Bolshevik ) is in the Arctic Ocean north of the Russian mainland located island . It is the southernmost and with about 11,312 km² after the island of the October Revolution the second largest island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago .

Administratively it belongs to the Siberian Autonomous Okrug Taimyr , which was incorporated into the Krasnoyarsk Territory on January 1, 2007 . About a third of the Bolshevik Island is glaciated . The Leningrad Ice Cap reaches a height of 874 m above sea level. The ice-free areas are occupied by tundra .

The island, discovered in 1913 by the Hydrographic Expedition of the Northern Arctic Sea , led by Boris Wilkizki , was called Swjataja Olga (German: Sankt Olga ) until 1926 . An initiative to officially reintroduce the old name from the time of Tsar Nicholas II , after which the entire archipelago was originally named, failed in 2007 due to a rejection by the regional parliament of the Krasnoyarsk region .

In the north of the island is the Cape Baranow research station , the largest in the Russian Arctic.

literature

• G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 43. (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Bolshevik Island  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Satellite image of the island on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• topographic maps: T-47-XXII, XXIII, XXIV , T-47-XVI-XVII-XVIII , T-48-XIII, XIV, XV , T48-XVI, XVII, XVIII , T-47-X, XI, XII , T-48, VII, VIII, IX , T-48-X, XI, XII , T-47-IV, V, VI , T-48-I, II, III

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Депутаты ЗС Красноярского края против переименования островов архипелага Северная Земля , Regnum News Agency (in Russian) May 24, 2007. Земля , May 24, 2007.