Boris Vilkitsky

Boris Andreyevich Vilkitsky (

Career

Born in Pulkovo,

Later in his life, Vilkitsky was employed as a hydrographer in the Belgian Congo. Boris Vilkitsky died in Brussels in 1961.

Tsarevich Alexei Island , the still incompletely charted new territories named by Boris Vilkitsky, in a 1915 map of the Russian Empire.

Memory

Many geographical features in Russia bear Vilkitsky's name:

• The most well-known one is
  Taimyr Peninsula, an important landmark of the Northern Sea Route
  .
• Zaliv Vil'kitskogo, a bay in the NW shores of Novaya Zemlya.
• Vilkitsky Island in the Kara Sea.
• The Vilkitsky Islands, a division of the
  Nordenskjold Archipelago
  .
• The Vilkitsky Islands subgroup of the
  Laptev sea off the eastern shores of the Taymyr Peninsula
  .
• Eastern Siberian Sea.^[3]

See also

• Russian Hydrographic Service

References

1. ^ The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910–1915 Archived 16 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Josephson, Paul. The Conquest of the Russian Arctic. p. 30.
3. ^ Map Trot, Russia

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boris Vilkitsky.

• The Arctic Personalities at poseidonexpeditions.com