Kuhn Island (Franz Josef Land)

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Kuhn Island
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Map of the Franz Josef Land
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 81 ° 7 '32 "  N , 58 ° 23' 34"  E Coordinates: 81 ° 7 '32 "  N , 58 ° 23' 34"  E
Kuhn Island (Franz-Josef-Land) (Franz-Josef-Land)
Kuhn Island (Franz Josef Land)
length 7.8 km
width 5 km
surface 17.5 km²
Highest elevation 228  m
Residents uninhabited
Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. The Kuhn Island is positioned to the east.
Location of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Archipelago. The Kuhn Island is positioned to the east.

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

geography

The largely unglaciated Kuhn Island is between its western (Mys Golowina) and eastern (Mys Obrywisty, steep cape ) almost 8 km long and up to 5 km wide in a north-south direction. Their area is about 17.5 km². In the south, a 2 km long peninsula extends in a south-westerly direction with an island, the Brosch Island , in front of it. The largest elevation on Kuhn Island is 228 m.

The island is located in the east of the central group of Franz Josef Lands (Zichy Islands). In the south-east lies the also largely unglaciated Kane Island at a distance of 1.5 km . Both islands are separated from the larger Greely Island in the south by Sterneck Sound . To the west is the Payer Island , to the north the Stoliczka Island and about 10 km northeast of the Becker Island .

history

The Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition discovered Franz-Josef-Land in August 1873. The Kuhn Island is already entered under this name on the first map of the archipelago. However, it was not entered by the expedition members, as their path in April 1874 led them along the east bank of Kane Island. Julius Payer got an overview by climbing Cape Hellwald in the northeast of Kane Island on April 17th. The Kuhn Island was named by Payer after the Austrian Minister of War Franz Kuhn von Kuhnenfeld , who sponsored the expedition.

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.

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