Domaschni Island

Domaschni Island
	Location of the Sedov Islands
Waters	Kara Sea
Archipelago	Sedov Islands , Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location	79 ° 30 '52 " N , 91 ° 1' 38" E Coordinates: 79 ° 30 '52 " N , 91 ° 1' 38" E
length	4.6 km
width	900 m
surface	2.2 km²
Highest elevation	21 m
Residents	uninhabited

The Domaschni Island ( Russian Остров Домашний ) is next to Strela the smallest of the Sedov Islands , an island chain in the west of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic .

The island is located in the western part of the Sedov Islands, southwest of the main island Sredni , from which it is separated by the Sergei Kamenew Strait, which is almost 600 m wide at its narrowest point. The distance to the northwestern Golomjanny Island is about 3.3 km. Like most of the Sedov Islands, Domaschni has an elongated shape - with a length of 4.6 km between the capes Mys Tschetwjorych in the northwest and Mys Pamiatny in the southeast, but only 900 m maximum width, it is more than five times as long as it is wide. At its highest point, it rises almost 21 m from the sea.

The abandoned polar station "Domaschni" is located at the southeast end of the island. It was established in 1930 as the base camp for the Severnaya Zemlyas exploration and mapping expedition. The four members of the expedition had been dropped off on the island by the icebreaker Georgi Sedov . While the expedition leader Georgi Ushakow and the geologist Nikolai Urwanzew mapped the coastline of the main islands on extensive sled tours and the hunter Sergei Shuravljow (1892-1937) took over the supply of people and sled dogs with meat, the radio operator Vasily Chodow (1908-1981) stayed in the Station. After the expedition ended, the station was used until 1954, but then moved to Golomjanny. The urn graves of Ushakov and Boris Kremer (1908–1976), a meteorologist who served on Domaschni during the war years from 1941 to 1943, are located near the old station . Both died in Moscow, but wanted to be buried on Domaschni.

literature

Georgi Ushakow: Unknown island country . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1954 (Russian: По нехоженой земле. Moscow and Leningrad 1951. Translated by Horst Wolf).

Web links

topographic map of the Sedov Islands

Individual evidence

↑ Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia , 2003, pp. 667–669 (English)
↑ История полярных арктических станций с 30-х годов XX века on http://www.arktika-antarktida.ru , accessed September 6, 2017 (Russian)
↑ Полярная станция Голомянный on polarpost.ru, accessed September 6, 2017 (Russian)
↑ Сегодня 100 лет со дня рождения полярника и уроженца Тульского края Бориса Кремера . In: Komsomolskaja Prawda on March 18, 2008, accessed on September 5, 2017 (Russian)

[1] Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia , 2003, pp. 667–669 (English)

[2] История полярных арктических станций с 30-х годов XX века on http://www.arktika-antarktida.ru , accessed September 6, 2017 (Russian)

[3] Полярная станция Голомянный on polarpost.ru, accessed September 6, 2017 (Russian)

[4] Сегодня 100 лет со дня рождения полярника и уроженца Тульского края Бориса Кремера . In: Komsomolskaja Prawda on March 18, 2008, accessed on September 5, 2017 (Russian)