- Salm Island
Salm Island ( _ru. Остров Сальм; "Ostrov Sal'm") is a roughly round-shaped island in
Franz Josef Land ,Russia .Salm Island is almost completely glaciarized except for a cape in its southern shore. Its maximum length is 17 km and its area is 344 km². The highest point of the island is 343 m.
Salm Island was named by the
Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraeten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged. The Salm-Hoogstraeten dynasty should not be confused with the Hochstetter dynasty.This island is surrounded by smaller islands.
Adjacent small islands
*Ostrova Bisernyye are two small isets located right off Salm Island's southern shore.
* A few miles to the northeast lie the Hochstetter Islands (Острова Гохштеттера or Острова Хохштеттера), made up of a 6.5 km long by 4 km wide island, Hochstetter Island (also known as Gogstettera Yuzhnyy), and two smaller islets Gogstettera Sredniy and Ostrov Al'batros. The Hochstetter Islands are named after the GermanHochstetter princely dinasty of theAustro Hungarian Empire .* Roughly north lies 3.7 km long Koldewey Island, (Остров кольдевея), named after Captain
Carl Koldewey leader of the second German expedition to the Arctic in 1869-70. Highest point 66 m.*Off Koldewey Island's northern point there is a small islet called Schönau Island (Остров Шёнау). This island was named after Teplitz-Schönau, (now
Teplice ,Czech Republic ), the birthplace of Austro-Hungarian EmperorFranz Joseph I .* Southwest of Salm Island lies 10 km long
Wilczek Island , (Остров Вильчека) (which should not be confused withWilczek Land in the same archipelago). It is separated from Salm Island by a 3km wide sound. This island is named after Austro Hungarian nobleman Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek.* 4 km southeast of Salm Island lies small and round Litke Island, (Остров Литке). Its area is 14 km² and it was named after Russian Count
Fyodor Petrovich Litke .References
* All locations: [http://land.worldcitydb.com/arkhangelã¢â€â™skaya_ã¢â€â™_in_russian_federation_state.html] & [http://islands.unep.ch/CEO.htm]
* Complete island list in Russian: [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8]
*Salm: [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/salm.html Genealogy and princely family branches] & [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomes/Europese%20adel/publicaties/Adel2/gp7060.htm Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten]
* Captain Karl Koldewey: [http://members.eunet.at/castaway/history/history.html]
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