Ledyanyye Islands
Ledyanyye Islands (Russian: Острова Ледяные;Ostrova Ledyanyye) are a small island group in the Kara Sea. They are coastal islands near the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, which lies further east.[1]
Geography
The Ledyanyye Islands are a group of two small islands located 5 km (3.1 mi) to the north of the Fuss Peninsula (Poluostrov Fussa) of the Siberian coast, and 13 km (8.1 mi) to the west of Vkhodnoy Island off the westernmost headland of Nansen Island.[2]
The larger island is on the east and is 1.8 km (1.1 mi) long and 0.8 km (0.50 mi) wide. The smaller western island is only 0.5 km (0.31 mi) in length. Both islands are separated by a 0.25 km (0.16 mi) wide sound.[3]
The sea surrounding the Ledyanyye Islands is covered with pack ice with some polynias during the long and harsh winters and there are many ice floes even in the summer.[4]
This island group belongs to the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve – the largest nature reserve of Russia and one of the biggest in the world.[5]
See also
References
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- Arkticheskiy Institut Islands
- Belukha and Prodolgovaty
- Bely Island
- Bera Island
- Bolshoi Korsakovsky Islands
- Bonevi
- Dzhekman Islands
- Dikson Island
- Eastern Islands
- Firnley Islands
- Gavrilova
- Graham Bell Island
- Heiberg Islands
- Helland-Hansen Island
- Izvestiy TSIK Islands
- Kamennye Islands
- Kirov Islands
- Kolchak Island
- Kolomeytsev Islands
- Kolosovykh
- Komsomolets
- Krasnoflotskiye
- Krestovsky Island
- Krusenstern Islands
- Labyrintovye
- Ledyanyye Islands
- Levinson-Lessing Island
- Lishny
- Litke Islands
- Markgama
- Minina Skerries
- Mona Islands
- Moristy
- Myachina Islands
- Nablyudeniy
- Nansen Island
- Neupokoyeva
- Nordenskiöld Archipelago
- Nosok
- Novaya Zemlya
- October Revolution
- Oleniy
- Pakhtusov Islands
- Pilota Makhotkina
- Pioneer Island
- Plavnikovye
- Proklyatye
- Rastorguyev Island
- Russky Island
- Schmidt Island
- Scott Hansen Islands
- Sedov Archipelago
- Severnaya Zemlya
- Severny Island
- Shokalsky
- Shren Islands
- Sibiryakov Island
- Sorevnovaniya
- Storozhevye
- Sverdrup Island
- Taymyra
- Tillo Islands
- Tsivolko Islands
- Ushakov Island
- Uyedineniya
- Vaygach Island
- Vilkitsky Island
- Vilkitsky Islands
- Vize Island
- Voronina
- Yarzhinsky Islands
- Yermolov Island
- Yuzhny Island
- Zveroboy