Poppy Islands
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| Waters | Kara Sea | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 42 ′ N , 88 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 11 | |
| Main island | Kravkov Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Poppy Islands ( Russian острова Мона , Ostrowa Mona , hence the Mona Islands ) are an uninhabited group of islands in the Kara Sea off the north coast of Russia . The eleven islands are located 30 km west of the Taimyr Peninsula and rise at their highest point, on the Kravkov Island, 42 m above sea level. Administratively, the archipelago belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Territory . The group was named by Fridtjof Nansen after the Norwegian meteorologist Henrik Mohn . The islands are part of the Great Arctic Sapovednik Nature Reserve .
The poppy islands include:
- Kravkov Island ( остров Кравкова )
- Hercules Island ( остров Геркулес )
- Ringnes Island ( остров Рингнес )
- Granitny ( остров Гранитный )
- Uski ( остров Узкий )
- Kraini ( остров Крайний )
and five smaller, offshore islands.
history
The archipelago was discovered by Nansen's Fram expedition on August 26, 1893 . Nansen also named Ringnes Island after the brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes , who financially supported his expedition.
1933–1934, the Poppy Islands were mapped by a Soviet expedition led by Vsevolod Ivanovich Vorobyov (1898–1984). The Krawkow Island got its current name after the hydrograph Sergei Nikolajewitsch Krawkow (1894-1941). The expedition discovered the remains of the ship Vladimir Alexandrovich Russanov, which had been missing in the Kara Sea since 1912, on Hercules Island . A plaque commemorates this today.
During the Second World War , German submarines and warships chased Russian convoys in the Poppy Islands area , especially during the Wunderland operation .
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union temporarily operated a weather station in the west of the Krawkow Island.
Web links
- Operations of the German Navy in the area of the Poppy Islands, 1942
- Information on the Great Arctic Sapovednik ( Memento from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Topographic maps ( 1: 1,000,000 , 1: 200,000 , 1: 200,000 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fridtjof Nansen: In night and ice . Volume I, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1897, p. 140.
- ↑ GP Awetissow: Worobjow Wsewolod Ivanovich (12 (24) .11.1898-09.02.1984) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 , accessed on August 26, 2017 (Russian)
- ↑ GP Awetissow: Krawkow Sergei Nikolayevich (11 (23) .11.1894 to December 1941) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 , accessed on August 26, 2017 (Russian)