Kirov Islands

Coordinates: 77°36′N 91°55′E / 77.600°N 91.917°E / 77.600; 91.917
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Kirov Islands
Russian: Острова Кирова
Russian Federation
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The Kirov Islands or Sergey Kirov Islands (

Russian Federation. It is an archipelago of small islands covered with tundra vegetation located about 140 km (87 mi) from the coast of Siberia and 100 km (62 mi) northwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago
.

Geography

This archipelago, as well as Kirov Island, its northernmost island which is located at the northeastern end somewhat detached from the main island cluster,

Sergey Kirov
. All islands are quite flat, mostly with sandy spits and coastal lagoons in their shores.

The group's largest island is Isachenko (

Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It has a surface of 180.6 km2 (69.7 sq mi) and the highest point in the archipelago.[3]
There is an experiment station (Polyarnaya Stantsiya) on Isachenko Island.

The sea surrounding the Kirov Islands is covered with pack ice with some

polynias in the winter and there are many ice floes even in the summer. The strait between Isachenko and Slozhnyy Island is known as Proliv Aeros"yëmki.[4]

This island group belongs to the

Russian Federation. They are also part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve (Russian: Большой Арктический государственный природный заповедник), the largest nature reserve of the Russian Federation.[5]

The Kirov Archipelago is not to be confused with Kirovskiye Ostrova (Russian: Кировские Острова), a historic district of Saint Petersburg formed by a group of three coastal islands in the Gulf of Finland north of the Neva river delta.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ostrov Kirova". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Ostrov Isachenko". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. ^ "UNEP Islands". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  4. ^ "Proliv Aeros"yëmki". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. ^ Nature Reserve Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Kirovskiye Ostrova". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 September 2016.