Sverdrup Island (Kara Sea)
- Sverdrup Island (Kara Sea)
Sverdrup Island or Svordrup Island (Russian: Остров Свердрупа) is an isolated island in the southern region of the Kara Sea. This island is covered with tundra vegetation. It is located 120 Km North of Dikson in the coast of Siberia. The nearest land are the Arkticheskiy Institut Islands, about 90 Km to the NE.
This island has a wide bay opening towards the west. Its length is 15 Km and its maximum width 10Km. The sea surrounding Sverdrup Island is covered with pack ice with some polynias in the long winter and there are many ice floes even in the summer.
This Russian island should not be confused with the Sverdrup Islands, an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. Both, however, are named after Norwegian polar explorer, Otto Sverdrup.
Administration
Sverdrup Island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation. It is also part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve – the largest nature reserve of Russia and one of the biggest in the world.
References
* [http://land.worldcitydb.com/dolgano-nenetskiy_in_russian_federation_state.html Location]
* [http://www.bigarctic.ru/Eng/ Nature Reserve]
* [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/IWS/n010/p00124-p00131.pdf "Breeding conditions for waders in Russian tundras in 1993" P.S. Tomkovich]
ee also
*Kara Sea
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