Voronin Islands
| Voronin Islands | ||
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| Waters | Kara Sea | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 11 ′ N , 93 ° 42 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Main island | Voronin Island | |
| Total land area | 7 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Voronin Islands ( Russian Острова Воронина , Ostrowa Voronina ) are two uninhabited Russian islands in the Kara Sea . Administratively, the archipelago belongs to Taimyr Raion in the Krasnoyarsk Territory . The islands were discovered in August 1930 by the icebreaker Sedov and are named after Vladimir Voronin (1890–1952), captain of the icebreaker Alexander Sibiryakov and leader of the later Soviet polar expedition of 1932.
geography
The Voronin Islands are comparatively isolated in the northeastern Kara Sea, 72 km northeast of the Kirov Islands , around 100 km northwest of the Nordenskiöld archipelago and around 130 km southwest of Severnaya Zemlya . Even in the summer months, the Kara Sea rarely thaws here, so that the islands are surrounded by pack ice almost all year round . The group consists of the larger Voronin Island ( Russian Остров Воронина ) with a length of 7.5 km and a width of 3.3 km and a small and narrow island north of it with dimensions of 2 × 0.5 km; both islands are separated from each other by a 2 km wide arm of the sea. The islands are consistently flat and reach a height of 17 m above sea level. The Voronin Islands are part of the Bolshoi Arktitscheski Sapovednik (Большой Арктический государственный природный заповедник) , the largest nature reserve in Russia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian North Polar Research , p. 876 (PDF; accessed December 20, 2010)
- ^ Page of the Bolshoi Arktitscheski Sapowednik ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English; accessed December 20, 2010)
Web links
- Topographic map o. Voronina (1: 200.000, Bl.T-46-XVI, XVII, XVIII)
