Lyakhov Islands

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Lyakhov Islands
Satellite photo of the Lyakhov Islands
Satellite photo of the Lyakhov Islands
Waters Arctic Ocean
archipelago New Siberian Islands
Geographical location 73 ° 45 ′  N , 140 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 73 ° 45 ′  N , 140 ° 0 ′  E
Map of Lyakhov Islands
Number of islands 3
Main island Big Lyakhov Island
Total land area 6095 km²
Residents uninhabited
Lyakhov Islands in the south of the New Siberian Islands
Lyakhov Islands in the south of the New Siberian Islands

The Lyakhov Islands ( Russian Ляховские острова , Yakut Ляхов арыылара ) are the southernmost islands of the New Siberian Islands . It is separated from the north Siberian mainland by the 60 km wide Laptev Strait , and from the Anjou Islands further north by the Sannikow Strait .

The islands were discovered in 1710 by the Cossack Jakow Permjakow , in 1712 he explored them together with Merkuri Wagin .

The archipelago is dominated by the Big Lyakhov Island (Большой Ляховский), which is approx. 4,600 km² and protrudes up to 270 m above the sea, and the Small Lyachow Island (Малый Ляховский), which is 1,325 km² in size. Another island is Stolbowoi (Столбовой остров). The Semenovsky Island (Семёновский остров) is gone to 1950 in the sea. The Vasilyevsky Island was in 1936 no longer be found. In 2013 a newly emerged island was discovered and named Jaja .

The name of the island goes back to Ivan Lyachow , a trader who explored the islands in 1773 in the hope of finding mammoth bones and ivory . He then claimed that the amount of mammoth bones and tusks was so enormous that one could think that the islands consist of them. A similar picture is said to have emerged on the other islands of the archipelago .

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

  • Nikolai V. Latkin: Lyachowskje Ostrowa . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 18 [35]: Лопари – Малолетние преступники. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1896, p. 277–278 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - Lyakhov Islands).

Web links

Commons : Lyakhov Islands  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ D. Gath Whitley: The Ivory Islands in the Arctic Ocean. In: Journal of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain. XII, 1910.
  2. ↑ Thick blood flows from the mammoth carcass. Die Welt, May 31, 2013, accessed June 1, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Clone of the primeval elephant possible? N24, May 31, 2013, accessed June 1, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Криопротекторные свойства крови мамонта: находка ученых СВФУ может подтвердить, гикотеу может подтвердить, гипотеу кананав. 29 May 2013.