Salisbury Island is relatively large and long, having a surface of 960km². Its highest point is 482 m and practically the entire surface of the island is glacierized.
The island was named by Frederick George Jackson during his 1894–1897 expedition.[1] A possible source for the name is geology professor Rollin D. Salisbury (1858-1922), of the University of Chicago. Salisbury was second-in-command on the Peary relief expedition.[citation needed] It is also possible that Jackson named the island after Lord Salisbury.
Adjacent Islands
Elisabeth Island (Остров Елизаветы; Ostrov Yelizavety) is a 5km long oval-shaped island lying 7km off Salisbury Island's northwestern end. Unglacierized; highest point 121 m. Frederick George Jackson named this island after his mother, Mary Elizabeth Jackson.[2]
Ostrova Kuchina (Острова Кучина). These are two very small islets off Salisbury Island's northeastern coast; one of them is very close to the shore. They were named after Russian Arctic explorer Alexander Kuchin, the only Russian on Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole on the Fram. Kuchin was lost in Vladimir Rusanov's ill-fated expedition from Spitsbergen on ship Gerkules in 1912.
Jackson, Frederick George (1899). A Thousand Days in the Arctic. New York: Cambridge University Press. p.265. ISBN978-1-108-04164-5. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
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