Mother of Pearl Island

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Mother of Pearl Island
Map of Graham Bell Island with Mother-of-Pearl Island northeast of Cape Head
Map of Graham Bell Island with Mother-of-Pearl Island northeast of Cape Head
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 80 ° 39 '58 "  N , 63 ° 37' 47"  E Coordinates: 80 ° 39 '58 "  N , 63 ° 37' 47"  E
Mother of Pearl Island (Franz Josef Land)
Mother of Pearl Island
length 1.4 km
width 1.4 km
surface 1.5 km²
Highest elevation 22  m
Residents uninhabited

The mother-of-pearl island ( Russian Перламутровый ; Perlamutrowy) was an island of the arctic Franz Josef country belonging to Russia . After its ice cap melted , it disappeared at the end of the 20th century.

The island was 200 m off the south coast of Graham Bell Island . It was covered by an almost circular ice cap with an area of ​​1.5 km² and reached a height of 22 m above sea level.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aleksey I. Sharov: Studying changes of ice coasts in the European Arctic (PDF; 854 kB). In: Geo-Marine Letters 25, 2005, pp. 153-166. doi : 10.1007 / s00367-004-0197-7

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