Komsomolets Island

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Komsomolets Island
Krenkel Bay on Komsomolets Island
Krenkel Bay on Komsomolets Island
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location 80 ° 29 ′  N , 94 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 29 ′  N , 94 ° 24 ′  E
Komsomolets Island (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
Komsomolets Island
length 120 km
width 75 km
surface 9 000  km²
Highest elevation 780  m
Residents uninhabited
Location of the island (in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago)
Location of the island
(in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago )

The Komsomolets Island ( Russian остров Комсомолец ) is the northernmost and third largest island of the Russian Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean . The approximately 9,000 km² island is about 65% glaciated and reaches a maximum height of 780 m. The island was first explored and named by an expedition led by Georgi Ushakow and Nikolai Urwanzew .

An initiative to rename the island to St. Mary (Святая Мария) and the archipelago in Nicholas II Land (Земля Императора Николая II) failed in 2007 because of rejection by the regional parliament of the Krasnoyarsk region .

Cape Arctic is the northernmost point of the island .

Photo gallery

  • Krenkel Bay (northeast coast of Komsomolets Island; 80 ° 40 ′ N, 97 ° 30 ′ E)

  • Abandoned Russian polar station Isluchina (northeast coast of Komsomolets Island; 81 ° N, 96 ° 33 ′ E)

  • Komsomolets Island:
    scrap metal and oil barrels at Cape Arktichesky (81 ° 15 ′ N, 95 ° 39 ′ E)

  • Shuravlyov Bay on the west coast of Komsomolets Island (80 ° 44 ′ N, 93 ° 19 ′ E)

literature

  • G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 154. (Russian)
  • A. Gorkin et al. a .: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 277. (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Komsomolets Island  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the North encyclopedia (English / Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Депутаты ЗС Красноярского края против переименования островов архипелага Северная Земля , Regnum News Agency (in Russian) May 24, 2007. Земля , May 24, 2007.