Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea)
Vilkitsky Island (Russian: Остров Вильки́цкого, tr. Ostrov Vilkitskogo; Yakut: Вилькицкай Aрыыта, romanized: Vil'kitskay Arııta) is the southernmost island of the De Long group in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea. Administratively Vilkitsky Island belongs to Yakutia, an administrative division of the Russian Federation.[1]
| Native name: | |
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 Map of the De Long Islands. | |
 Map showing the location of the group | |
| Geography | |
| Location | East Siberian Sea |
| Coordinates | 75°42′N 152°30′E |
| Archipelago | De Long Islands |
| Total islands | 5 |
| Area | 1.5 km2 (0.58 sq mi) |
| Length | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
| Width | 1 km (0.6 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 70 m (230 ft) |
| Administration | |
Russia | |
| Federal subject | Far Eastern Federal District |
| Republic | Yakutia |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
The island is named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky.
Geography
The island is outside of the limits of permanent ice and is unglaciated. At barely 1.5 square kilometres (0.6 square miles) Vilkitsky is the smallest island of the group. The highest elevation is 70 metres (230 feet) above sea level.[2]
Vilkitsky Island consists of deeply eroded nepheline basalt lava flows[3]
 Vilkitsky Island Landsat picture. |
History
Vilkitsky Island was discovered in 1913 during the Imperial Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky on the ships Taymyr and Vaygach on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service in order to chart the last blank areas of Russian maps.[4]
See also
References
- Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) Land Feature Database Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Headland, R. K. (1994): OSTROVA DE-LONGA ('De Long Islands')
- Fujita, K., and D.B. Cook, 1990, The Arctic continental margin of eastern Siberia, in A. Grantz, L. Johnson, and J. F. Sweeney, eds., pp. 289-304, The Arctic Ocean Region. Geology of North America, vol L, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.
- Starokadomski, L.M. and O.M. Cattley, 1919, Vilkitski's North-East Passage, 1914-15. The Geographical Journal. vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 367–375.
External links
- Anisimov, M.A., and V.E. Tumskoy, 2002, Environmental History of the Novosibirskie Islands for the last 12 ka. 32nd International Arctic Workshop, Program and Abstracts 2002. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, pp 23–25.
- Schirrmeister, L., H.-W. Hubberten, V. Rachold, and V.G. Grosse, 2005, Lost world - Late Quaternary environment of periglacial Arctic shelves and coastal lowlands in NE-Siberia. 2nd International Alfred Wegener Symposium Bremerhaven, October, 30 - November 2, 2005.
