Hochstetter Islands

Hochstetter Islands
The Hochstetter Islands in the southeast of Franz Josef Land
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Geographical location	80 ° 10 ′  N , 60 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 10 ′  N , 60 ° 6 ′  E
Number of islands	3
Main island	Southern Hochstetter Island
Total land area	22.8 km²
Residents	uninhabited

The Hochstetter Islands ( Russian Острова Хохштеттера , Ostrowa Chochschtettera , or Острова Гохштеттера, Ostrowa Gochschtettera ) are a group of islands in the arctic Franz Josef Land . Administratively, they belong to the Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

The group of three islands is located in the southeast of Franz Josef Land between 10 and 15 km northeast of Salm Island and around 17 km south of Klagenfurt Island . The largest and highest of the islands is the South Island ( Juschny ). It is 7.6 km long and up to 4.5 km wide. Its area is 22.2 km². Most of the island is covered by an ice cap up to 181  m high . Its coastline is characterized by steep banks that drop more than 100 m in the southeast. To the northwest lie two smaller islands, the central island ( Sredni ) and the island of Albatros. The central island is 1.4 km long and up to 800 m wide, Albatros 500 m long and 280 m wide. Their areas are 0.5 and 0.1 km². They are 10 and 44 m high.

history

The archipelago was discovered in 1873 by the Austro-Hungarian North Polar Expedition and named by Julius Payer after the German-Austrian President of the Imperial and Royal Geographic Society , Ferdinand von Hochstetter .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographic map U-41-XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII (scale 1: 200,000)
2. ↑ Andreas Umbreit: Hochstetter (Gokhshtettera) Insel - Franz-Joseph-Land on the website www.franz-josef-land.info , accessed on October 2, 2017
3. ↑ Topographic map U-41-XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI (scale 1: 200,000)
4. ^ Johan Schimanski, Ulrike Spring: Passengers of the Ice: Polar Heroes and Arctic Discourses 1874 . Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79606-0 , p. 443 ( limited preview in the Google book search)