Ledyanyye Islands

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Ledyanyye Islands
Russian: Острова Ледяные
Geography
Location Kara Sea
Coordinates Coordinates: 76°10′20″N94°53′30″E / 76.17222°N 94.89167°E / 76.17222; 94.89167
Total islands2
Length1.8 km (1.12 mi)
Width0.8 km (0.5 mi)
Highest elevation8 m (26 ft)
Administration
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

Ledyanyye Islands (Russian : Острова Ледяные;Ostrova Ledyanyye) are a small island group in the Kara Sea. They are coastal islands near the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, which lies further east. [1]

Russian language East Slavic language

Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although nearly three decades have passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia.

Kara Sea A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia between Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. It is named after the Kara River, which is now relatively insignificant but which played an important role in the Russian conquest of northern Siberia. The Kara River name is derived from Nenets word meaning "hummocked ice".

Nordenskiöld Archipelago archipelago

The Nordenskiöld Archipelago or Nordenskjold Archipelago is a large and complex cluster of islands in the eastern region of the Kara Sea. Its eastern limit lies 120 km (75 mi) west of the Taymyr Peninsula.

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Geography

The Ledyanyye Islands are a group of two small islands located 5 km (3.1 mi) to the north of the Fuss Peninsula (Poluostrov Fussa) of the Siberian coast, and 13 km (8.1 mi) to the west of Vkhodnoy Island off the westernmost headland of Nansen Island. [2]

Vkhodnoy Island (Kara Sea) small island in the Kara Sea

Vkhodnoy Island, is a small island in the Kara Sea. It is one of the islands of the coastal area of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago.

Nansen Island (Kara Sea) island in Russia

Nansen Island, is a long and narrow island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is 21 km (13 mi) and its average width about 2.5 km (1.6 mi). This island is located in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula.

The larger island is on the east and is 1.8 km (1.1 mi) long and 0.8 km (0.50 mi) wide. The smaller western island is only 0.5 km (0.31 mi) in length. Both islands are separated by a 0.25 km (0.16 mi) wide sound. [3]

Sound (geography) A long, relatively wide body of water, connecting two larger bodies of water

In geography, a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land.

The sea surrounding the Ledyanyye Islands is covered with pack ice with some polynias during the long and harsh winters and there are many ice floes even in the summer. [4]

Drift ice Sea ice that is not attached to land and may move on the sea surface in response to wind and ocean currents

Drift ice, also called brash ice, is any sea ice other than fast ice, the latter being attached ("fastened") to the shoreline or other fixed objects. Drift ice is carried along by winds and sea currents, hence its name. When drift ice is driven together into a large single mass, it is called pack ice. Wind and currents can pile up that ice to form ridges up to several metres in height. These represent a challenge for icebreakers and offshore structures operating in cold oceans and seas.

Sea ice Ice formed from frozen seawater

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes. Because ice is less dense than water, it floats on the ocean's surface. Sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface and about 12% of the world's oceans. Much of the world's sea ice is enclosed within the polar ice packs in the Earth's polar regions: the Arctic ice pack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean. Polar packs undergo a significant yearly cycling in surface extent, a natural process upon which depends the Arctic ecology, including the ocean's ecosystems. Due to the action of winds, currents and temperature fluctuations, sea ice is very dynamic, leading to a wide variety of ice types and features. Sea ice may be contrasted with icebergs, which are chunks of ice shelves or glaciers that calve into the ocean. Depending on location, sea ice expanses may also incorporate icebergs.

This island group belongs to the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve – the largest nature reserve of Russia and one of the biggest in the world. [5]

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District District in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of the krai above the Arctic Circle on the Taymyr Peninsula and borders with Laptev and Kara Seas in the north, the Sakha Republic in the east, Evenkiysky and Turukhansky Districts in the south, and with Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the west. The area of the district is 879,900 square kilometers (339,700 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Dudinka. Population: 34,432 (2010 Census); 39,786 ; 55,111 (1989 Census). The population of Dudinka accounts for 64.4% of the district's total population.

Krasnoyarsk Krai First-level administrative division of Russia

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia, with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk—the third-largest city in Siberia. Comprising half of the Siberian Federal District, Krasnoyarsk Krai is the largest krai in the Russian Federation, the second largest federal subject and the third largest subnational governing body by area in the world, after Sakha and the Australian state of Western Australia. The krai covers an area of 2,339,700 square kilometers (903,400 sq mi), which is nearly one quarter the size of the entire country of Canada, constituting roughly 13% of the Russian Federation's total area and containing a population of 2,828,187, or just under 2% of its population, per the 2010 Census.

Great Arctic State Nature Reserve nature reserve in Russia

The Great Arctic State Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. With an area of 41,692 square kilometers (16,097 sq mi), it is the largest reserve of Russia and Eurasia, as well as one of the largest in the world.

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References

  1. ↑ Ostrova Ledyanyye, Russia - Geographical Names
  2. ↑ "Ostrova Ledyanyye". Mapcarta. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Google Earth
  4. ↑ Fast ice conditions near the Nordenskjold Archipelago
  5. ↑ Nature Reserve Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine .
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