Wilkizkistraße
| Wilkizkistraße | ||
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| Connects waters | Kara Sea | |
| with water | Laptev Lake | |
| Separates land mass | Bolshevik Island ( Severnaya Zemlya ) | |
| of land mass | Taimyr Peninsula | |
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| Geographical location | 77 ° 57 ' N , 103 ° 35' E | |
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| Smallest width | 56 km | |
| Islands | Heiberg Islands | |
The Vilkitsky Strait ( Russian пролив Вилькицкого / proliw Wilkizkogo ) is a strait which the Taimyr peninsula in northern Siberia from the archipelago Severnaya Zemlya separates.
The strait connects the Kara Sea in the west with the Laptev Sea in the east. It is about 130 kilometers long and at the narrowest point, between the northernmost point of the Taimyr peninsula, Cape Chelyuskin and Cape Taimyra on the Bolshevik Island , 56 kilometers wide. East of Bolshevik Island branches off from Wilkizkistraße in a northeastern direction to Jewgenowstraße , which separates this largest island of the group from the smaller Starokadomski and Little Taimyr Islands to the southeast . In the western part of the strait rise the four small islands of the Heiberg archipelago . Wilkizkistraße is 100 to 150 meters deep in the western part and over 200 meters in the eastern part.
The road is named after the hydrographer Boris Wilkizki , who failed in 1913 during the "Hydrographic Expedition of the Arctic Ocean" with the ice-breaking cargo ships Taimyr and Waigatsch to cross the strait along the Northeast Passage and got stuck in the ice off Cape Chelyuskin. This northernmost section of the Northeast Passage was crossed for the first time in 1878/79 by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld .
literature
- A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 107. (Russian)
- Evgeny Pospelow: Geografitscheskie naswanija Rossii . AST, 2008, ISBN 978-5-17-054966-5 , p. 139. (Russian)
Web links
- Entry in the North encyclopedia (English / Russian)