Kolomeitsev Islands

Kolomeitsev Islands

The Kolomeitsev Islands (Russian: острова Коломейцева; "Ostrova Kolomeytseva") is a group of two small islands, part of the Nordenskjold Archipelago in the Kara Sea coastal region, off the coast of Siberia. These two islands are about 40 km east of Russkiy Island, the largest island of the Nordenskjold Archipelago, and less than 100 km west of the Taymyr Peninsula. The latitude of this island group is 76° 56' N and the longitude 97° 48’ E.

The sea surrounding the little Kolomeitsev Islands is covered with fast ice in the winter and the climate is severe. The surrounding sea is obstructed by pack ice even in the summer.

These islands belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.

In 1900 the islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago were explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll during the Polar Expedition on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences aboard ship "Zarya". The Kolomeitsev Islands islands were named after Captain N. N. Kolomeitsev, first commander of the ship.

References

* [http://www.bigarctic.ru/Eng Nature Reserve]
* Albert Hastings Markham. Arctic Exploration, 1895

* Armstrong, T., "The Russians in the Arctic", London, 1958.

* [http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/history/history_soviet.html Early Soviet Exploration]

* [http://www.tour-land.ru/extr/north_p/eng/hist_ark.shtml History of Russian Arctic Exploration]

ee also

* Kara Sea
* Taymyr Peninsula


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