Neupokoyev Island
| Neupokoyev Island Ostrov Neupokoev |
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| Waters | Kara Sea | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 9 ′ N , 76 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 6.5 km | |
| surface | 133.1 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 29 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Neupokoyev Island ( Russian Остров Неупокоева ) is a 133.1 km² Russian island in the (southern) Kara Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean . Administratively it belongs to the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Krasnoyarsk Territory . It is uninhabited.
Geographical location
The Neupokoyev Island is located northwest of the Yenisei Gulf within the Kara Sea. It is located about 50 km northeast of the coast of the Jawai Peninsula (northwest arm of the Gydan Peninsula ), about 65 km northwest of Oleni Island , about 70 km west of Sibiryakov Island and just under 30 km south-southeast of Wilkizki Island . It lies on the western edge of the Bolshoi Arktitscheski Sapovednik , the largest nature reserve in Russia.
The island is 20 km long and up to 6.5 km wide; its coastline is 52.3 km long.
Name origin
The island is named after the Russian hydrographer Konstantin Konstantinovich Neupokojew named (1884-1924), who from 1911 to 1915 at the Hydrographic Expedition Arctic Oceans took part and as part of a 1920 conducted Soviet Kara Sea expedition surveying the estuary of whether and Yenisei headed.
Landscape, fauna and climate
The western and eastern parts of Neupokoyev Island are covered as low, flat, marshy plains by numerous lakes, some of which are at the origins of the short flowing waters; the waters are covered in ice for most of the year . In the middle part there are a few mounds (max. 29 m high) made of Quaternary deposits. To the west and south-east of the main island are small elongated islands and sandbanks .
Since the arctic island is located in the tundra vegetation zone, the vegetation is limited to mosses , lichens and grasses . The winters are long and extremely cold, the summers short and cold. There is permafrost , which thaws more and more in the summers.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Neupokoyeva (Neupokoyev Island), on islands.unep.ch (English)
- ↑ GP Awetissow: Neupokojew Konstantin Konstantinowitsch (11 (23) .09.1884-19.01.1924) . In: Imena na Karte Rossijskoi Arktiki , Nauka, Sankt Petersburg 2003, ISBN 5-02-025003-1 (Russian)
- ↑ Topographic map ( Memento from March 12, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (1: 200.000, Bl. S-43-XXIX, XXX, Ed. 1956), Neupokojew Island (top left) in the Kara Sea a . a. with neighboring islands and sandbanks, on maps43.narod.ru (with heights above sea level)