Gora Sovetskaya

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Gora Sovetskaya
Berry Peak
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Gora Sovetskaya
Highest point
Elevation 1,096 m (3,596 ft)
Coordinates 71°05′50″N179°21′24″W / 71.0972°N 179.3567°W / 71.0972; -179.3567
Geography
Location Chukotka,
Russian Far East
Parent range Central Range, Wrangel Island

Gora Sovetskaya (Russian: гора советская, meaning "Soviet Mountain"), also known as Berry Peak, is a mountain on Wrangel Island. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation. [1]

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This 1,096-metre (3,596 ft) high mountain is the highest point of Wrangel Island. It is located in the area near the center of the island, [2] in the Central Mountain Range that runs across Wrangel Island from east to west. [1]

History

The mountain is conspicuous from the sea and was first described by Captain Thomas Long in 1867 as having "the appearance of an extinct volcano." [3] It was named "Berry Peak" by the United States Navy in 1881 after U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert M. Berry, commanding officer of the steamer USS Rodgers, who led the group which landed on the island. [4] As a result of the surveys of the time, Berry Peak was marked as a 762-metre-high (2,500-foot) mountain by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. [5] By the early 20th century other surveys of the mountain had been carried out from the shore, but once inland it was not clear which mountain was "Berry Peak." [6]

The mountain was properly surveyed in 1938, by which time the island had become part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. The correct elevation was found to be 1,096 m (3,596 ft) and the peak was named Gora Sovetskaya. [7]

1913 map of Wrangel Island. Wrangel Mamenmap.jpg
1913 map of Wrangel Island.
Old map of Wrangel Island with the peak marked as "Mount Berry." 272 of 'Minnen fran Vegas fard (under Baron Nordenskiold) och dess svenska foregangare jamte en kortfattad framstallning af nordostpassagens historia och den amerikanska nordpols-expeditionen under De Long, etc' (11296328156).jpg
Old map of Wrangel Island with the peak marked as "Mount Berry."

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  2. Sailing Directions for Siberia. United States. Hydrographic Office; p. 53
  3. John Muir, Terry Gifford, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings, p. 718
  4. Herbert Michael Wilson, John Henry Renshawe, Edward Morehouse Douglas, Richard Urquhart Goode, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. No. 185. p. 96
  5. Dictionary of Altitudes of the United States, Bulletin. Issue 274. p. 37
  6. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, The Adventure on Wrangel island
  7. Russia's Far East and Wrangel Island