Little Lyakhov Island

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Little Lyakhov Island
Map of the New Siberian Islands
Map of the New Siberian Islands
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Lyakhov Islands ( New Siberian Islands )
Geographical location 74 ° 7 ′  N , 140 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 74 ° 7 ′  N , 140 ° 37 ′  E
Location of Little Lyakhov Island
surface 1 325  km²
Residents uninhabited

The Little Lyakhov Island ( Russian Малый Ляховский ) is the second largest of the Lyachow Islands with 1,325 km² . Geographically, it belongs to the New Siberian Islands .

It is located north of the Big Lyakhov Island . To the north, the Sannikow Strait separates it from the Anjou Islands .

It is named after the Russian trader Ivan Lyachow , who explored the archipelago from 1770 to 1775 in search of mammoth bones and ivory .

On May 29, 2013, the discovery of a very well-preserved mammoth carcass with muscle tissue and liquid blood was announced. The remains of the animal were in the permafrost of the Little Lyakhov Island.

literature

  • G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 201. (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thick blood flows from the mammoth carcass. Die Welt, May 31, 2013, accessed June 1, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Clone of the primeval elephant possible? N24, May 31, 2013, accessed June 1, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Криопротекторные свойства крови мамонта: находка ученых СВФУ может подтвердить, гикотеу может подтвердить, гипотеу кананав. 29 May 2013