Big Lyakhov Island

Big Lyakhov Island
Kigiljach Peninsula
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Lyakhov Islands ( New Siberian Islands )
Geographical location	73 ° 33 '  N , 142 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 73 ° 33 '  N , 142 ° 3'  E
length	125 km
width	75 km
surface	4th 600  km²
Highest elevation	Emi Tas 293  m
Residents	uninhabited
Map of the New Siberian Islands

The Big Lyakhov Island ( Russian Большой Ляховский , Yakut Ляхов улахан арыыта) is the largest and southernmost of the Lyakhov Islands in the archipelago of the New Siberian Islands . It is uninhabited.

The island is 4,600 km ^{2 in} size. Its highest elevation, the Emy Tas , at 293 m , is located in the extreme southeast near Cape Shalaurov. The 45 km wide Laptev Strait separates the island from the Siberian mainland .

It was discovered in 1710 by Jakow Permjakow , who explored it for the first time in 1712 together with Merkuri Wagin . The name of the island goes back to Ivan Lyachow (Иван Ляхов), a trader who explored the islands in 1773 in the hope of finding mammoth bones and ivory .

literature

• G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, pp. 44-45. (Russian)

Web links

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

• Topographic map of the Lyakhov Islands