geo.wikisort.org - IslandThe Kamennye Islands or Kammenny Islands (Russian: Каменные Острова; Kamennye Ostrova) is a group of islands in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation.
Group of islands in the Kara Sea, Russian Federation
This article is about the islands in the Kara Sea. For the island in
Saint Petersburg, see Kamenny Island. For Island in Kubensky Lake, see Kamenny Monastery.
Kamennye IslandsRussian: Каменные Острова |
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Location of the island group in the Kara Sea |
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Location | Kara Sea |
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Coordinates | 74°07′N 82°48′E |
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Total islands | 6 |
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Major islands | Vostochny, Zapadny Kamenny, Rastorguyev |
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Population | 0 |
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Geography
The islands lie off the coast of Siberia, west of the mouths of river Pyasina. They are covered with tundra vegetation.
The sea surrounding the Kamennye Islands is covered with pack ice with some polynias in the winter and there are many ice floes even in the summer, so that they are connected with the Siberian mainland during the long winters. The climate is severe and summers last only about two months.
This island group belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation.
Islands
The main islands are (from East to West):[1]
- Morzhovo Island, with a diameter of only 4 km (2.5 mi), is the closest to land. It is only about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the Siberian coastline.
- Rastorguyev Island. It is long and narrow, and about 15 km (9.3 mi) in length. It is occasionally confused with Kolchak Island (which is located further east in the Kara Sea along the coast south of the Nordenskiold Archipelago, and until 2005, used to also be known as Rastorguyev Island).
- Vostochny Island, is the largest in the group; 17 km (11 mi) in length and 9 km (5.6 mi) wide.
- Zapadny Kamenny Island, roughly circular in shape; 8.5 km (5.3 mi) in diameter.
History
These islands were explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll[2] during an expedition on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences.[3]
They island group is included in the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve of the Russian Arctic.
See also
References
На других языках
- [en] Kamennye Islands
[it] Isole Kamennye
Le isole Kamennye (in russo Каменные острова, Kamennye ostrova, in italiano "isole di pietra")[1] sono un gruppo di isole russe bagnate dal mare di Kara.
[ru] Каменные острова
Ка́менные острова́ — архипелаг из четырёх островов, расположенных в Пясинском заливе Карского моря, к северу от Берега Петра Чичагова полуострова Таймыр. Относятся к территории Красноярского края.
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