Karastrasse

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Karastrasse
Karastrasse and the surrounding area
Karastrasse and the surrounding area
Connects waters Barents Sea
with water Kara Sea
Separates land mass South Island (Novaya Zemlya)
of land mass Waigatsch
Data
Geographical location 70 ° 30 ′  N , 57 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 70 ° 30 ′  N , 57 ° 59 ′  E
Kara Street (Arkhangelsk Oblast)
Karastrasse
length 33 km
Smallest width 50 km
Islands Tschiratschi, Oleni, Morosow, Mordovin, Bolshoi Voronow, Janow, Bolshoi Loginow, Maly Loginow, Kusowa Zemlya, Kasobin and others. a.

The Kara Strait or Kara Port ( Russian Карские Ворота , Karskije Vorota) is a strait in the extreme northeast of Europe . In northern Russia it connects the Barents Sea in the southwest with the Kara Sea in the northeast. It separates the island of Waigach from the south island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago .

The Karastraße is 33 km long and 50 km wide. The shallows Banka Prokofjewa and Banka Persei as well as numerous islands in front of both banks reduce the fairway to a width of 25 km.

In some winters the strait freezes over completely. Until the early summer, sea ​​ice drifts through the Kara Strait into the Barents Sea and further along the Novaya Zemlya coast.

In 1032 a trading expedition came Pomors to the Kara Strait. The Englishman Stephen Borough was the first Western European to reach it in 1556 with his ship Serchethrift . Heavy ice prevented him from passing. His compatriots Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman, who drove through Karastrasse in August 1580 in search of the Northeast Passage , were more successful .

literature

  • G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 139. (Russian)
  • W. Tschernawin and others: Wojenno-morskoi slowar . Wojenisdat, Moscow 1990, p. 175. ISBN 978-5-203-00174-0 . (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sailing Directions (Enroute). North Coast of Russia. Pub. 183, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia 2017, pp. 77–79 ( PDF ; 5.3 MB; English)
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Kosack : The polar research . A data book about the natural, cultural and economic conditions and the exploration history of the polar regions. Reprint of the 1st edition from 1967. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-00292-5 , pp. 265 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-02205-3 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Charles Henry Coote: Borough, Stephen . In: The Dictionary of National Biography , 1885–1900, Volume 5 (English)
  4. ^ Fridtjof Nansen : Through Siberia, the land of the future . Heinemann, London 1914, p. 440 (English)
  5. ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 2 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 521 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).

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