Golomjanny Island
Golomjanny Island | ||
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Location of the Sedov Islands (Golomjanny Island is located in the far west of the archipelago) |
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Waters | Kara Sea | |
Archipelago | Severnaya Zemlya | |
Geographical location | 79 ° 33 '12 " N , 90 ° 46' 21" E | |
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length | 6 km | |
width | 1.5 km | |
surface | 9 km² | |
Highest elevation | 26 m | |
Residents | uninhabited |
The Golomjanny Island ( Russian Остров Голомянный ), also called Golomyanny Island , is the westernmost of the Sedov Islands , a small chain of islands in the west of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic .
Golomjanny lies in the Kara Sea and borders directly on Sredni Island in the east . The surface of the island forms a flat plateau with rolling hills and reaches a height of 26 m in the southeast . With the exception of the western part, the coast is steep with cliffs up to 12 m high. The sparse vegetation consists mainly of lichens and mosses. Arctic poppies and saxifrage appear occasionally .
The mean annual air temperature on Golomjanny is −14.4 ° C. The warmest month is July with an average air temperature of 0.6 ° C, the coldest is February with an average of −28.0 ° C. The highest air temperature ever recorded on the island was 13.3 ° C (July 1965), the lowest −50.7 ° C (March 1969). During the year, an average of 155 mm of precipitation falls. The island has a closed snow cover on an average of 299 days a year .
The island was only discovered in the early 20th century. Georgi Alexejewitsch Ushakow and Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Urwanzew mapped them - like the entire Severnaya Zemlya archipelago - from 1930 to 1932. In the spring of 1954, Soviet researchers set up a meteorological polar station on the north-western tip of Golomjanny Island .
literature
- G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 85. (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Полярная станция Голомянный on polarpost.ru, accessed September 5, 2017 (Russian)
- ↑ Climate data for Golomjanny Island on the website "Pogoda i Klimat", accessed on September 7, 2017 (Russian)