Sannikov Land
Sannikov Land Земля Санникова | |
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Matvei Gedenschtrom | |
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Type | Large phantom island |
Locations | Arctic Ocean |
Sannikov Land (Russian: Земля Санникова) was a phantom island in the Arctic Ocean. Its supposed existence became something of a myth in 19th-century Russia.
History
In 1886, the
A search by the Soviet icebreaker Sadko was announced in 1936 and carried out in 1937 but found no trace of the land.[2][3]
Some historians and geographers,[4] judging from other successes of Sannikov and the presence of shallow sand shoals at Sannikov Land's mapped location, postulate that it indeed once existed, but was destroyed by coastal erosion and became a submerged sand shoal, like many other islands formed either of fossilized ice or of permafrost. This process of Arctic islands disappearing continues within the New Siberian Islands archipelago.[4][5] Other historians and geographers hypothesize that Sannikov Land might have been a miraged image of Bennett Island. Such mirages occur frequently in the Arctic region.[1]
In popular culture
Russian
Obruchev provided a reasonable justification of the possibility of the described things and events. The island turned out to contain a
In 1973, a science fiction film based on Obruchev's book, called The Land of Sannikov, was released in the Soviet Union.
Sannikov Land is used as a location in British horror podcast The Magnus Archives in Episode 101, "Another Twist". It is described as a place that does not exist and has never existed, in association with an entity known as "The Spiral," which personifies madness and deceit.
See also
- Crocker Land
- Bradley Land
References
- ^ a b Mills, W. J., 2003, Exploring polar frontiers: a historical encyclopedia. ABC CLIO Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- ^ Indiana Progress. 19 Aug 1936.
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(help) - ^ White, Calvin S. (16 May 1937). "U.S.S.R. Opens Far North". New York Times. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ a b Gavrilov, A.V., N.N. Romanovskii, V.E. Romanovsky, H.-W. Hubberten, and V. E. Tumskoy (2003). Reconstruction of Ice Complex Remnants on the Eastern Siberian Arctic Shelf. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. vol. 14, pp. 187–198.
- ^ Grigorov, I.P., 1946, Disappearing islands. Priroda, pp. 58–65 (in Russian)