Sedov Islands
Sedov Islands | ||
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Sedov Islands to the west of Severnaya Zemlya |
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Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
Geographical location | 79 ° 26 ' N , 91 ° 51' E | |
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Number of islands | 10 | |
Total land area | 60 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited |
The Sedov Islands , also called Sedov Archipelago ( Russian архипелаг Седова , scientific transliteration archipelag Sedova ) are a small group of islands in the west of the Severnaya-Zemlya Archipelago in the Russian Arctic .
All of the uninhabited, mostly ice-covered islands of the group are located about 25 kilometers south of the coast of Pioneer Island and about five kilometers from the first foothills of the October Revolution Islands . They form a chain of islands about 50 kilometers long in the Kara Sea .
The archipelago includes around ten small islands, u. a. the
- Domaschni Island ( Остров Домашний )
- Figurny Island ( Остров фигурный )
- Golomjanny Island ( Остров Голомянный )
- Sredni Island ( Остров Средний )
- Vostochny Island ( Остров Восточный )
- Strela Island ( Остров Стрела ) .
The Sedov Islands were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and completely mapped between 1930 and 1932 by geologists Georgi Alexejewitsch Uschakow and Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Urwanzew , who set up the base station for their expedition to explore Severnaya Zemlyas on Domaschni Island. After another expedition in 1937 with the icebreaker Georgi Sedow ( Георгий Седов ) the archipelago was named after the Russian polar explorer and namesake of the research vessel Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedov . In the 1950s, a meteorological research station was built on Golomjanny Island and is still in operation today.
In September 2015, Russia announced that it would establish a military base on Sredni Island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Georgi Uschakow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ http://www.peoples.ru/science/seafarers/sedov/
- ↑ Article Georgi Sedov in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ^ EI Alexandrov, VF Radionov, PN Svyaschennikov: Climatic regime and its changes in the region of the Barents and Kara seas ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on npolar.no (PDF file; 452 kB, English)
- ↑ http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Ope2005a.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Publication with a map about the location of the station
- ↑ Russia sends air defense troops to the Arctic , Die Welt , September 29, 2015, accessed on August 15, 2016.
Web links
- Sites in Google Books (Engl.)