Salm Island

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Salm Island
Остров Сальм
Salm Island in the southeast of Franz Josef Land
Salm Island in the southeast of Franz Josef Land
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Franz Josef Land
Geographical location 80 ° 1 ′  N , 59 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 80 ° 1 ′  N , 59 ° 26 ′  E
Salm Island (Franz Josef Land)
Salm Island
length 21.3 km
width 20.5 km
surface 343.7 km²
Highest elevation Chernyshev ice cap
343  m
Residents uninhabited

The Salm Island ( Russian Остров Сальм Ostrow Salm ) is an island in the Southeast to Russia belonging to Franz-Josef-Lands in the Arctic Ocean . Administratively they belong to the Arkhangelsk Oblast .

geography

The island is round in shape with a diameter of around 21 km and an area of ​​344 km². It is almost completely covered by the Chernyshev ice cap, which rises relatively gently to a maximum height of 343 m, only in the south there is an ice-free area of ​​around 10 km². The Salm Island is surrounded by a few smaller islands, the Wilczek Island in the southwest, the Koldewey Island in the northwest, the Hochstetter Islands in the northeast and the Lütke Island in the southeast. The next larger islands are Hall and McClintock Islands in the northwest and Wilczek Land in the northeast.

history

Salm Island was discovered in 1873 by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition and explored together with the surrounding islands at the beginning of 1874. Julius Payer named the island after former count Franz Salm, who supported the trip with a donation of 20,000 guilders , among other things .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UNEP Islands (English)
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Umbreit: Salm Insel - Franz-Joseph-Land on the website franz-josef-land.info; accessed on October 2, 2017
  3. ^ Johan Schimanski, Ulrike Spring: Passengers of the Ice: Polar Heroes and Arctic Discourses 1874 . Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79606-0 , p. 443 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Calculation of the North Pole Expedition In: Volksblatt für Stadt und Land 5th volume, No. 53, December 31, 1874, p. 19

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