Starokadomsky Island

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Starokadomsky Island
Severnaya Zemlya: Starokadomsky in the southeast of the group.
Severnaya Zemlya :
Starokadomsky in the southeast of the group.
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location 78 ° 15 '  N , 106 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 78 ° 15 '  N , 106 ° 32'  E
Starokadomsky Island (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
Starokadomsky Island
length 18 km
width 7 km
surface 110 km²
Highest elevation 41  m
Residents uninhabited

The Starokadomski Island ( Russian Остров Старокадомского , scientific transliteration Ostrov Starokadomskogo ) is a Russian island in the Laptev Sea and belongs to the Severnaya Zemlya island group . The island was named after Leonid Michailowitsch Starokadomski (1875–1962), the father of the Russian composer Michail Starokadomski .

geography

Starokadomski Island is located in the west of the Laptev Sea at the northern end of Wilkizki Street . It is located in the southeast of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, about 28 km east of Bolshevik Island and 6 km west of Little Taimyr Island . Starokadomsky Island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Territory and has an area of ​​110 km². The island is about 18 km long and 7 km wide. It consists of two larger parts, which are connected by an isthmus. The northern part of the island is flat, the southern part of the island is hilly with elevations of 35 to 40 meters. The coasts are severely cut. The uninhabited island is surrounded by pack ice in winter .

Flora and fauna

The island is partially covered with ice. There are lower plants such as lichens and mosses on it. In the summer, the Laptev walruses ( Odobenus rosmarus laptevi ), which only occur in the Laptev Sea, can be found on it . In addition, the island is a breeding space for birds and a habitat for polar bears in summer . Starokadomski has been part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve since 1993 ( Большой Арктический государственный природный заповедник ).

history

In 1913 the Russian sailed Hydrographic Expedition Arctic Oceans with the icebreakers Taimyr ( Таймыр ) and Waigatsch ( Вайгач ) under the leadership of the Russian officer Boris Vilkitsky later named after him Vilkitsky Strait . The expedition carried out preparatory work for the establishment of a northern sea route along the Russian north coast. They were the first to explore the east side of the previously unknown Severnaya Zemlya archipelago .

On September 8, 1913, the expedition's doctor, Leonid Michailowitsch Starokadomski (1875–1962), while exploring the Little Taimyr Island on foot, was the first to discover the nearby Starokadomski Island, which was later named after him.

During the exploration of the Northeast Passage by Amundsen's expedition on the Maud , Starokadomski Island was entered for the first time in 1919.

Between 1930 and 1932 the island was completely mapped and surveyed by geologists Georgi Alexejewitsch Uschakow and Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Urwanzew , who mapped the entire 37,000 km² Severnaya Zemlya archipelago as part of their expedition.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.marsches.ru/ru/soviet/comp_sov/article-Starokadomsky.html
  2. ↑ http://www.nature.ok.ru/doc/mammal/1_33.htm
  3. ↑ https://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/taxonredirect/15106
  4. ↑ The Great Arctic State Nature Reserve ( Memento from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/pss/199861 Map of Wilkizki's explorations
  6. ↑ http://www.sarrest.ru/cultura/pers/01/ui41.html
  7. ↑ http://www.skypole.ru/ushakov/biogr_e.htm

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