Henrietta Island

Henrietta Island
	Henrietta Island from the southeast on June 26, 2015
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	De Long Islands
Geographical location	77 ° 5 '25 " N , 156 ° 34' 0" E Coordinates: 77 ° 5 '25 " N , 156 ° 34' 0" E
length	4 km
width	4 km
surface	12 km²
Highest elevation	312 m
Residents	uninhabited
	NASA image of Henrietta Island surrounded by pack ice

The Henrietta Island ( Russian остров Генриетты ) is the northernmost of the De Long Islands in the archipelago of the New Siberian Islands . The uninhabited island is located in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea .

The Henrietta Island is 12 km² in size. Almost half of the island's mainly sandstone surface is covered by an ice cap that reaches a height of 315 m.

The island was discovered by the American polar explorer George W. DeLong , whose ship, which had been trapped by the ice for 21 months, drove past Henrietta and her neighbor Jeannette in May 1881 before it was crushed by the ice masses and sank on June 12th. DeLong's chief engineer George W. Melville ended up with a small group of sailors on the island and named it after the mother of the expedition sponsor James Gordon Bennett .

In 1979, the Soviet adventurer Dmitri Schparo (* 1941) led a group of seven from Henrietta Island to the North Pole on skis and without the help of sled dogs .

Although Henrietta Island has been controlled by Russia since the early 20th century , US claims have also been made since its discovery . In the 1990 agreement between the Soviet Union and the USA on the sea border between Alaska and Siberia , the De Long Islands are recognized as Russian. According to the United States Department of State, the United States has never made a claim on the De Long Islands.

literature

Evgeny Pospelow: Geografitscheskie naswanija Rossii. AST, 2008, ISBN 978-5-17-054966-5 , p. 155 (Russian)
Article Henrietta Island in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Henrietta Island - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Ralph M. Myerson: De Long Islands . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 471–472 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape X . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 605–606 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
^ Status of Wrangel and other Arctic islands , Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US State Department, 2003, accessed on February 20, 2016.

[1] Ralph M. Myerson: De Long Islands . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 471–472 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape X . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 605–606 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

[3] Status of Wrangel and other Arctic islands , Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, US State Department, 2003, accessed on February 20, 2016.