Baydukov Island
Baydukov Island (Остров Байдуков; Ostrov Baydukov), formerly Langr Island or Bol'shoy Langr Island, is a coastal island in the southern end of the
Schastya Bay, facing the northwestern tip of Sakhalin
.
Baydukov Island is 12 km long and has a maximum width of less than 3 km in its west-northwest end area.
This island is one of the few areas in Russia where the
murrelets
(long-billed and marbled) are considered common.
Administratively this island belongs to the
Russian Federation
.
History
This island was named after Soviet pilot
Franz Joseph Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk. The plane landed 56 hours and 20 minutes later in nearby Udd Island
after having covered 9,374 km.
Adjacent Islands
- Belyakov Island (Ostrov Belyakova) 53°14′N 141°25′E / 53.233°N 141.417°E lies 11 km south of Baydukov Island's southern coast. It is 0.7 km long and about 500 m wide. This small island was named after Soviet lieutenant Alexander V. Belyakov, navigator of the record-breaking ANT-25 flight.
References
- Location
- Marbled murrelet
- Picture of Pilots Valery Chkalov, Georgy Baidukov and Alexander Belyakov sitting next to their plane on Udd Island[permanent dead link]
- Anatoliy Kvochur's Su-30 Airplane Lands at Zhukovskiy
- Russian seabird data
- Belyakov Island[permanent dead link]
External links
53°20′N 141°23′E / 53.333°N 141.383°E
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