Samoyovich Island
Samoyovich Island | ||
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Waters | Kara Sea | |
Archipelago | Severnaya Zemlya | |
Geographical location | 79 ° 5 ' N , 92 ° 35' E | |
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length | 15 km | |
width | 1.1 km | |
surface | 12 km² | |
Highest elevation | 33 m | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Location Severnaya Zemlyas in the Russian Arctic |
The Samoilovich Island ( Russian Остров Домашний ) belongs to the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic .
It is located about 35 km west of the October Revolution Island and 35 km south of the Sedov Islands . The island is 15 kilometers long, but only a little over a kilometer wide. Its area is 12 km² and its greatest height 33 m . The surface of the island is characterized by a steeply sloping southwest coast to the open Kara Sea and a flat northeast coast.
Samoyovich Island was discovered in 1930 by an expedition led by Otto Schmidt with the icebreaker Georgi Sedow and named after the Russian-Soviet polar explorer and geologist Rudolf Samoyovich . When he was executed in the course of Stalin's " Great Purge " in 1938 , its name was changed to "Long Island" (Остров Длинный, Ostrow Dlinny). In 1965 it got its original name back.
Web links
- Topographic map T-46-VII, VIII, IX on a scale of 1: 200,000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samoilowitscha in the dictionary of geographical names (Russian)