Yeah (island)

Yes / Yes
Waters	Laptev Lake
Archipelago	Lyakhov Islands ( New Siberian Islands )
Geographical location	73 ° 59 '25 " N , 133 ° 5' 28" E Coordinates: 73 ° 59 '25 " N , 133 ° 5' 28" E
length	368 m
width	124 m
surface	3.8 ha
Highest elevation	0.5 m
Residents	uninhabited

Jaja ( Russian Яя , with the emphasis on the second syllable) is one of the Lyakhov Islands of the New Siberian Islands in the Laptev Sea .

The island is very shallow and reaches less than a meter above sea level when the water level is medium. With a length of 368 m and a width of 124 m, it is 3.8 hectares in size. According to Alexander Gukow, the director of the Ust-Lenski State Nature Reserve, the island, consisting of sand and ice, was created in the middle of the 20th century, after other long-known islands in this area were the Laptev Sea - such as the Vasilyevsky and Semyonovsky -Island - were gone.

Jaja was discovered in September 2013 by the crews of two Mi-26 military helicopters on the way from Tiksi to Kotelny Island . Its name is said to have originated in such a way that when the explorers were asked who was the first to see the island, they all shouted “I, I!” (Russian: yes, yes! ). On September 23, 2014 the first landing took place by crew members of the research vessel Admiral Wladimirski .

Web links

Natalia Pavlova: New island of Jaja on Russia's map ( Memento from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Voice of Russia from October 10, 2014.

Individual evidence

↑ На остров Яя в море Лаптевых впервые ступил человек , SeverPost October 1, 2014, accessed August 8, 2016 (Russian).
↑ ^a ^b Natalia Pavlova: New island of Jaja on Russia's map ( memento from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Voice of Russia from October 10, 2014.
↑ Геннадий Богданов: Мал золотник, да дороғ ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 11.6 MB). In: Государственное Управление Ресүрсами 7–8, 105–106, 2014, pp. 32–33 (Russian).

[Severpost-1] На остров Яя в море Лаптевых впервые ступил человек , SeverPost October 1, 2014, accessed August 8, 2016 (Russian).

[Pavlova-2] Natalia Pavlova: New island of Jaja on Russia's map ( memento from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Voice of Russia from October 10, 2014.

[3] Геннадий Богданов: Мал золотник, да дороғ ( Memento from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 11.6 MB). In: Государственное Управление Ресүрсами 7–8, 105–106, 2014, pp. 32–33 (Russian).