- Kotlin Island
Kotlin (or Kettle; Finnish "Retusaari") is a
Russia nisland , located near the head of theGulf of Finland , 20 miles west ofSaint Petersburg in theBaltic Sea . The fortified town of Kronstadt is located on the island.In general outline, the island forms an elongated triangle, 7½ miles in length by about 1 in breadth, with its base towards St Petersburg. The eastern or broad end is occupied by the town of Kronstadt, and
shoal s extend for a mile and a half from the western point of the island to the rock on which the Tolbaakenlighthouse is built.The island thus divides the seaward approach to St Petersburg into two channels; that on the northern side is obstructed by shoals which extend across it from Kotlin to
Lisiy Nos ; the southern channel, the highway to the former capital, is narrowed by a spit which projects from opposite Lomonosov on the Russian mainland, and, lying close to Kronstadt, has been historically strongly guarded by batteries. The naval approach to Saint Petersburg was greatly facilitated by the construction in1875 -1885 of acanal , 23 ft. deep, through the shallows, whereas cars will soon be able to travel overland to the island by using theSaint Petersburg Dam from the north and south shores of theGulf of Finland . Started in 1980, but delayed by political upheaval in the 1990s, the project is now scheduled to be completed in 2008.Pollution
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November 15 ,2000 , a collision between two ships, a 67-meter refrigerator trawler named Nortlandia and a 130-meterPanama nian-registered cargo vessel named E.W. McKinley, spilled 3 tons ofdiesel fuel into the water off Kotlin Island. The smaller ship also sank as a result of the collision after sustaining hull damage, and two crew members required treatment forhypothermia . The fuel slick covered 11 square kilometers of Kronstadt harbor. By that afternoon, divers had plugged the hole to prevent further leakage, and remediation efforts to contain and remove the spill were underway. [Titova, Irina. " [http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=13318 Kronshtadt Collision Sinks Ship] ", TheSt. Petersburg Times , publishedNovember 17 ,2000 , accessedMarch 11 ,2007 .]ee also
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Kotlin class destroyer (Project 56) References
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