Markgama Island

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Markgama, or Markham Island (Russian: Остров Маркгама, literally "Island of Markham") is a small, isolated island in the southern region of the Kara Sea off Sorevnovaniya Bay. The island has only sparse tundra vegetation and is covered with snow for most of the year. The coast of the Taymyr Peninsula is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the southeast.

The island's length is only 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) and its maximum width is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). The sea surrounding it is covered with pack ice with some

in the long winter and there are many ice floes even in the summer.

Markgama belongs to the

, the largest nature reserve in Russia and one of the biggest in the world.

History

The area around Markgama was explored by

Clements Robert Markham

in 1893.

References

• Ostrov Markgama at WorldCityDB.com^{[permanent dead link]}
• Otto Sverdrup to the Rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy, by William Barr
• The Great Arctic State Nature Reserve at BigArctic.ru website

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