Golomjanny Island

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Golomjanny Island
Location of the Sedov Islands (Golomjanny Island is in the far west of the archipelago)
Location of the Sedov Islands
(Golomjanny Island is located in the far west of the archipelago)
Waters Kara Sea
Archipelago Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location 79 ° 33 '12 "  N , 90 ° 46' 21"  E Coordinates: 79 ° 33 '12 "  N , 90 ° 46' 21"  O
Golomjanny Island (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
Golomjanny Island
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

  1. a b Полярная станция Голомянный on polarpost.ru, accessed September 5, 2017 (Russian)
  2. Climate data for Golomjanny Island on the website "Pogoda i Klimat", accessed on September 7, 2017 (Russian)