Pioneer Island

Pioneer Island
	MODIS satellite image of the island
Waters	Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location	79 ° 55 ' N , 92 ° 2' E Coordinates: 79 ° 55 ' N , 92 ° 2' E
length	59 km
width	43 km
surface	1 527 km²
Highest elevation	Pioneer ice cap ; 385 m
Residents	uninhabited
	Location of the island ; (in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago )

The Pioneer Island ( Russian о́стров Пионе́р , Ostrow Pioner ) is an island located in the Kara Sea north of mainland Russia . It is the westernmost of the large islands of Severnaya Zemlya and with 1,527 km² the fourth largest island of this archipelago. Administratively it belonged to the Siberian Autonomous Okrug Taimyr , which was incorporated into the Krasnoyarsk Territory on January 1, 2007 .

In the north-east lies the island of Komsomolets , separated by the Proliw Juny (Young Street) , to the east and south-east behind the Proliw Krasnoi Armii (Street of the Red Army) the October Revolution Island and in the south-west, separated by the Zaliw Kalinina (Kalinin Bay) and the Proliw Lodotschny (boat canal), the island of Krupskoi , which was initially thought to be a peninsula of the pioneer island.

The pioneer island is mostly flat and only reaches heights of up to about 100 meters outside the pioneer ice cap . In summer it is mostly free of ice. The 199 km² and 385 m high ice cap is the only glaciated area on the island after the Kroschka glacier disappeared . Only 10 to 15 percent of the ice-free area is covered by vegetation.

The pioneer island was discovered in 1932 by Georgi Alexejewitsch Uschakow , who explored Severnaya Zemlya, known since 1913, with the geologist Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Urwanzew and mapped it carefully.

An initiative to rename Severnaya Zemlyas back to Nikolaus-II-Land, in which the island pioneer was to be named Swjataja Tatjana (German Sankt Tatjana ), failed in 2007 because it was rejected by the regional parliament of the Krasnoyarsk region .

literature

G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 268. (Russian)

Web links

Article Pioneer Island in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Individual evidence

^ RP Bassford, MJ Siegert, JA Dowdeswell: Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. III: Sensitivity of Ice Caps in Severnaya Zemlya to Future Climate Change (PDF; 825 kB). In: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38, No. 1, 2006, pp. 21–33 (English)
^ RP Bassford, MJ Siegert, JA Dowdeswell, J. Oerlemans, AF Glazovsky, YY Macheret: Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. I: Climate and Mass Balance of the Vavilov Ice Cap (PDF; 740 kB). In: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1–12 (English)
↑ Депутаты ЗС Красноярского края против переименования островов архипелага Северная Земля , Regnum News Agency (Russian, 24th May 2007)

[1] RP Bassford, MJ Siegert, JA Dowdeswell: Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. III: Sensitivity of Ice Caps in Severnaya Zemlya to Future Climate Change (PDF; 825 kB). In: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38, No. 1, 2006, pp. 21–33 (English)

[2] RP Bassford, MJ Siegert, JA Dowdeswell, J. Oerlemans, AF Glazovsky, YY Macheret: Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. I: Climate and Mass Balance of the Vavilov Ice Cap (PDF; 740 kB). In: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1–12 (English)

[3] Депутаты ЗС Красноярского края против переименования островов архипелага Северная Земля , Regnum News Agency (Russian, 24th May 2007)