geo.wikisort.org - IslandPayer Island (Russian: остров Пайера, romanized: ostrov Payera) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.
Island in Russia
This island was named after Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an Arctic landscape artist, one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
Geography
Payer Island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Josef Land. Its area is 151 km² and it lies to the SE of Jackson Island. The headland at the northern end is Mys Nordik.[1] The center of the island is covered by an ice dome named Kupol Frolova (Купол Фролова). Its highest point reaches 452 m (1,483 ft).[2]
Adjacent islands
Very close to Payer Island, off its easternmost point, lie some small islands:
- Stoliczka Island (Остров Столичка), the island farther offshore, is the site of a large walrus rookery. Lat 81° 11′ N, long 58° 16′ E. This island was named after Moravian paleontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838–1874) by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
- Apollo Island (Ostrov Apollonova) lies in the sound between Stoliczka and Payer Island. It is only 500 m across.
- Milovzorov Rocks (Рифы Миловзорова), rocks awash located off the NE shore of Payer Island.
See also
References
Bibliography
- Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence
External links
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- Austrian Strait
- British Channel
- Cape Bystrova
- Cape Fligely
- Cape Kohlsaat
- Cape Mary Harmsworth
- Markham Sound
- Queen Victoria Sea
- Russian Arctic National Park
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History |
- Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition
- Nansen's Fram expedition
- Jackson–Harmsworth expedition
- Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition
- Ziegler Polar expedition
- Bratvaag expedition
- Malygin
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На других языках
[de] Payer-Insel
Die Payer-Insel (russisch остров Пайера, Ostrow Paiera) ist eine unbewohnte Insel des zu Russland gehörenden arktischen Franz-Josef-Lands. Administrativ gehört sie zur Oblast Archangelsk.
- [en] Payer Island
[fr] Île Payer
L'île Payer (en russe : остров Пайера, ostrov Payera) est une île de la terre François-Joseph
[it] Isola di Payer
L'isola di Payer (in russo Остров Пайера, ostrov Pajera) è un'isola russa nell'Oceano Artico che fa parte della Terra di Zichy nell'arcipelago della Terra di Francesco Giuseppe.
[ru] Остров Пайера
О́стров Па́йера — остров архипелага Земля Франца-Иосифа. Площадь острова — 152 км², наивысшая точка острова — 452 метра. Административно относится к Приморскому району Архангельской области России.
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