Stolbowoi

Stolbowoi
Waters	Laptev Lake
Archipelago	Lyakhov Islands ( New Siberian Islands )
Geographical location	74 ° 4 ′ N , 135 ° 49 ′ E Coordinates: 74 ° 4 ′ N , 135 ° 49 ′ E
length	46.7 km
width	10.3 km
surface	170 km²
Highest elevation	222 m
Residents	uninhabited

Stolbowoi ( Russian Столбовой остров , "Pillar Island") is an approximately 170 km² large Russian island in the Arctic Laptev Sea, belonging to the Lyachow Islands (southern part of the New Siberian Islands ) .

The highest elevation of the uninhabited island, which is 46.7 km long in the northwest-southeast direction between the capes Mys Skalisty and Mys Poworotny and up to 10.3 km wide in the southwest-northeast direction, is 222 m in the southeast part. Its surface consists largely of granite , the vegetation corresponds to that of the tundra .

The island was discovered by the Russian explorer, trader and cartographer Jakow Sannikow in 1800 and mapped by Pyotr Anjou in 1821 . Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld passed the island on board the Vega on August 28, 1878, while he was the first to cross the Northeast Passage .

cards
Situation map
Map of the New Siberian Islands
Map of Stolbowoi

literature

Stolbowoi Ostrow . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 31 a [62]: Статика – Судоустройство. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1901, p. 683 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF ).
G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR. Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 329 (Russian).

Individual evidence

↑ Topographic map (1: 200.000, Bl. S-53-XI, XII, Ed. 1987)
^ Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld: The circumnavigation of Asia and Europe on the Vega with a historical review of earlier journeys along the north coast of the Old World , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1882, p. 375 .

Web links

Commons : Stolbowoi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Article Stolbowoi in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

[1] Topographic map (1: 200.000, Bl. S-53-XI, XII, Ed. 1987)

[2] Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld: The circumnavigation of Asia and Europe on the Vega with a historical review of earlier journeys along the north coast of the Old World , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1882, p. 375 .