Jeannette Island

Jeannette Island
Drawing of Jeannette Island from 1881
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	De Long Islands
Geographical location	76 ° 47 '22 "  N , 158 ° 5' 28"  E Coordinates: 76 ° 47 '22 "  N , 158 ° 5' 28"  E
length	3 km
width	1.3 km
surface	3.3 km²
Highest elevation	351  m
Residents	uninhabited
Map of the De Long Islands

The Jeannette Island ( Russian остров Жаннетты ) is the easternmost of the De Long Islands in the archipelago of the New Siberian Islands and the easternmost of the New Siberian Islands as a whole.

The uninhabited island is located about 600 kilometers north of the north coast of East Siberia in the East Siberian Sea . It is three kilometers long and over a kilometer wide. Their area is 3.3 km². A small ice cap in the center of the island reaches a height of 351 m. The surface of the Jeannette Island consists mainly of sandstone .

The island was discovered on May 16, 1881 by a US North Pole expedition on the USS Jeannette . It received the name of the expedition ship, the archipelago that of the expedition leader George W. DeLong . Shortly after the discovery of the island and its neighbor, Henrietta Island , the sailing ship was crushed by the ice on June 13, 1881 and sank.

Trivia

The island is not displayed on Google Earth and Google Maps , instead there is only a black area. On the other hand, the island can be easily seen on Bing Maps . The representation on the Google programs probably does not result from deliberate censorship , but simply from an error in the USGS / NASA - Landsat program. The island can now be seen when zooming in in the middle of the icy sea.

Web links

Commons : Jeannette Island  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Icebound report from the expedition of the "Jeannette" (English)
• Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center Pictures from the expedition

Individual evidence

1. ^ Narine Khachatryan: The Mysterious Disappearance of Jeannette Island (on Google Maps) . In: Bellingcat .com, January 9, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019.