Kane Island

Kane Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Franz Josef Land
Geographical location	81 ° 4 '47 "  N , 58 ° 38' 53"  E Coordinates: 81 ° 4 '47 "  N , 58 ° 38' 53"  E
length	5.8 km
width	5.1 km
surface	23.2 km²
Highest elevation	282  m
Residents	uninhabited
Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. The Kane Island is positioned to the east.

The Kane Island ( Russian Остров Кейна ; Ostrow Keina) is an island in the arctic Franz Josef Land . Administratively, it belongs to the Russian Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

The largely unglaciated Kane Island is 5.8 km long in north-south direction and up to 5.1 km wide from west to east. Their area is about 23 km². The highest point on Kane Island is 282 m.

The island is located in the east of the central group of Franz Josef Lands (Zichy Islands). In the southwest, separated by the approximately 2.5 km wide Sterneck Sound, is Greely Island . 1.5 km to the north-west is the Kuhn Island with the Brooch Island to the south .

history

The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition discovered Franz-Josef-Land in August 1873. The Kane Island is already entered under this name on the first map of the archipelago. Julius Payer's second toboggan trip was in April 1874 along the east bank of Kane Island. The expedition members entered the Osterkap in the southeast of the island, and Payer climbed Cape Hellwald in the northeast on April 17 to get an overview. He named the island after the American polar explorer Elisha Kent Kane .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographic map U-40-XXVIII, IXXX, XXX (scale 1: 200,000)
2. ^ Julius Payer: The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872–1874 , Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1876. Original map of the Emperor Franz Josef Land
3. ^ Julius Payer: The Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in the years 1872–1874 , Alfred Hölder, Vienna 1876. P. 345 f.

Web links

• Andreas Umbreit: Kane Island on the website www.franz-josef-land.info