Longstrasse

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Longstrasse
Satellite photo of Long Street
Satellite photo of Long Street
Connects waters East Siberian Sea
with water Chukchi Sea
Separates land mass Wrangel Island
of land mass Eastern Siberia
Data
Geographical location 70 ° 10 ′  N , 178 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 70 ° 10 ′  N , 178 ° 10 ′  E
Longstrasse (Chukchi Autonomous District)
Longstrasse
length 128 km
Smallest width 146 km
Greatest depth 50 m

The Long Strait ( Russian пролив Лонга , Proliw Longa ) is a 146 km wide strait of the Arctic Ocean in the Asian part of Russia . It separates Wrangel Island in the northeast from the mainland of Eastern Siberia in the southwest and connects the East Siberian Sea with the Chukchi Sea .

The strait is named after the American whaler Thomas Long, who passed it in 1867 along the south coast of Wrangel Island and gave the island its current name.

The Longstrasse is part of the Northeast Passage . However, coastal festival ice and drift ice make them impassable for most of the year. However, the number of ice-free days per year has risen sharply since the 1970s and averaged 60 in the early 2010s, although it is subject to large annual fluctuations. In August 1983, 50 ships froze in Longstrasse, one of which was lost and another 30 were damaged.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tadeusz Pastusiak: The Northern Sea Route as a Shipping Lane: Expectations and Reality . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-41834-6 , pp. 149 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Article Longstrasse in the Great Russian Encyclopedia 2005-2017 (Russian)
  3. ↑ John R. Bockstoce, Charles F. Batchelder: A Gazetteer of Whalers' Place-Names for the Bering Strait Region and the Western Arctic . In: Names . tape 26 , no. 3 , 1978, p. 258–270 (English, article online [PDF; 681 kB ]).
  4. ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 2 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 720 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Tadeusz Pastusiak: The Northern Sea Route as a Shipping Lane: Expectations and Reality . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-41834-6 , pp. 96 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  6. ^ William V. Dunlap: Transit Passage in the Russian Arctic Straits . Ed .: Peter Hocknell (=  Maritime Briefing . Volume 1 , No. 7). University of Durham, Durham 1996, ISBN 1-897643-21-7 , pp. 7 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

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