Wilkizki Island (Kara Sea)
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| Waters | Kara Sea | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 28 ′ N , 75 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| length | 42 km | |
| width | 12 km | |
| surface | 153.9 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 5 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Vilkitsky Island ( Russian Остров Вилькицкого , Ostrow Wilkizkowo ) is an uninhabited, Russian island in the Kara Sea . Administratively it belongs to the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Tyumen Oblast . The island is named after Andrei Ippolitowitsch Wilkizki , a Russian hydrograph and geodesist and father of Boris Andrejewitsch Wilkizki .
geography
Wilkizki Island is located north of the Yenisei estuary in the southern area of the Kara Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean . From the Siberian mainland ( Gydan Peninsula ), the island is about 50 km from the Shokalsky Island | 40 km in the southwest and about 80 km from the Siberyakov Island in the southeast. 15 km south of it is the smaller island of Neupokoyeva . The sickle-shaped Wilkizki Island is about 42 km long, up to 12 km wide and has an area of almost 154 km². The island has a sandy spit in the far east and in the west , only the wider, central part is characterized by tundra . The eastern spit is separated from the larger part of the island by an arm of the sea that is only a few meters wide. The Wilkizki island is - like many islands in the Kara Sea - mostly flat and reaches a height of only 5 m above sea level. It is part of the 1996 decorated Sapowedniks Gydan , one of the larger protected areas of Russia.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b UNEP Islands Directory (English)
- ↑ Gydan-Sapowednik in the information and information system Specially Protected Natural Areas of Russia of the Center for Nature Conservation (Russian; accessed on December 22, 2010)