Samoyovich Island

Samoyovich Island
Waters	Kara Sea
Archipelago	Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location	79 ° 5 '  N , 92 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 79 ° 5 '  N , 92 ° 35'  E
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

1. ↑ Samoilowitscha in the dictionary of geographical names (Russian)