Dolgi (island)
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| Waters | Lake Pechora | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 16 ' N , 59 ° 7' E | |
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| length | 38 km | |
| width | 4 km | |
| surface | 106 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Dolgi ( Russian Остров До́лгий , Ostrow Dolgij , German "Long Island" ) is a narrow, elongated island off the north coast of Russia in the Pechora Sea , the southeastern area of the Barents Sea . Administratively, the island belongs to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Arkhangelsk Oblast .
geography
Dolgi is 38 km long but only a maximum of 4 km wide. The southern tip of the island is 12 km off the north coast of the West Siberian Lowlands . The landscape of the relatively flat island is characterized by tundra interspersed with many small lakes and ponds .
See also
literature
- G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 101. (Russian)