Sibiryakov Island
Sibiryakov Island or Sibiryakow Island (Russian: Остров Сибирякова, Ostrov Sibiryakova), also known as Kuz'kin Island (Кузькин остров), is an island in the Kara Sea, off the northern end of the estuary of the Yenisei river. It belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation and is named after Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, an Imperial Russian gold-mine proprietor. Sibiryakov financed explorations to Siberia, such as Nordenskiöld's, and also took part in some expeditions of his own.
Geography
The island has an area of 800 square kilometres (310 square miles). Its length is 38 kilometres (24 miles) and its maximum width 27 kilometres (17 miles). It lies just 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the nearest coast. The sea surrounding Sibiryakov Island is covered with pack ice in the winter and there are numerous ice floes even in the summer. The strait between Sibiryakov Island and the mainland is known as Vostochnyy Proliv. Some 12 km off Sibiryakov Island's northern cape lies a narrow and curved group of three islands known as Nosok Island (Остров Носок; Ostrov Nosok).
Environment
Sibiryakov is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia, and is covered with tundra vegetation.
The island regularly supports a significant population of greater white-fronted geese. It has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International.[1]
References
- ^ "Sibiryakova Island". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2024. Retrieved 2024-08-23.
- Nature Reserve: [1]
- Encyclopædia Britannica.
See also
- Kara Sea
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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
72°54′N 79°11′E / 72.900°N 79.183°E / 72.900; 79.183
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