Hohenlohe Island

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Hohenlohe Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 81 ° 36'30 "  N , 58 ° 31'0"  E Coordinates: 81 ° 36'30 "  N , 58 ° 31'0"  E
Hohenlohe Island (Franz Josef Land)
Hohenlohe Island
length 8 kilometers
surface 38 km²
Highest elevation 137  m
Residents uninhabited

The Hohenlohe Island ( Russian остров Гогенлоэ , Ostrow Gogenloe ) is an uninhabited island in the arctic Franz Josef Land, which belongs to Russia .

It is separated from Rudolf Island , the northernmost island of the archipelago , by the Neumayer Sound, which is around 10 km wide. The Karl-Alexander-Insel is about 10 km to the southwest . The Oktjabrjata rocky cliffs ( Острова Октябрята ) are located northeast of Hohenlohe Island .

Cape Schrötter

With a length of around eight kilometers and an area of ​​38 km², Hohenlohe Island is one of the smaller of the archipelago. It is almost completely covered by two flat ice caps that merge into one another and reach a height of around 200 m. Some rocky capes protrude from the ice sheet, especially the striking Cape Schrötter in the north, named after Anton Schrötter von Kristelli .

The island was discovered during the Austro-Hungarian north polar expedition in April 1874 and named by Julius Payer after the Franconian noble family Hohenlohe . Leaving his exhausted crew behind at Cape Schrötter, Payer and two companions reached Rudolf Island and the end point of his expedition, Cape Fligely . The Payer-Weyprecht memorial expedition , which followed in Payer's footsteps, ended in May 2005 at Cape Schrötter.

literature

  • Julius Payer: The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872–1874 . Hölder, Vienna 1876. ( PDF file, 23 MB )

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