Bolshevik Island

Bolshevik Island (Template:Langx, Template:IPA) is an island in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Arctic. The island is named after the political faction of the Soviet Union.

History

The island, together with the eastern coast of what was named Emperor Nicholas II Land, was discovered by Boris Vilkitsky at the time of the 1913 Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition. Its insularity, however, wasn't proven until 1931, when Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev charted the archipelago during their 1930–32 expedition.<ref name=Barr1975>Template:Cite journal</ref>

It is the southernmost island and the second largest island in the group. The area of this island has been estimated at Template:Convert.<ref name="Gale"/> The island is mountainous reaching a height of 935 m. About 31% of Bolshevik Island, totaling over Template:Convert, is covered by glaciers, the largest are Leningrad Glacier, Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Glacier, Kropotkin Glacier, Mushketov Glacier and Aerosyomki Glacier. Most of these ice formations do not reach the sea, ending in moraines in valleys or coastal plains having a sparse vegetation of moss and lichen.<ref name="oceandots">Template:Cite web (translated as "North Land). Template:Usurped. Accessed May 2011</ref>

Parts of the shore of the island are deeply indented, with Mikoyan Bay in the northopening to the Shokalsky Strait, as well as fjords such as Akhmatov Fjord, Thaelmann Fjord, Spartak Fjord and Partizan Fjord. Cape Unslicht (Mys Peschanyy) is the northernmost point of Bolshevik Island<ref name="mapcarta-Mys Peschanyy">Template:Cite web</ref> and Cape Neupokoyev at the SW end the southernmost.<ref name="mapcarta-Mys Neupokoyeva">Template:Cite web</ref> Ostrov Tash is a small island located on Bolshevik's southern shore. Lavrov Island and Blizky Island are located off the NE shore and Ostrov Lishniy off its northern tip.

The group formed by the smaller Maly Taymyr and Starokadomsky islands is located further offshore off the southeastern end.

Bolshevik Island image (Landsat-7 1999-07-29)
Southern coast of
Bolshevik Island:
Antsev Point (78°11’N, 103°7’E)
Southern coast of
Bolshevik Island:
Solnechny Bay (78°11’N, 103°7’E)
Southern coast of
Bolshevik Island:
Solnechny Bay (78°11’N, 103°7’E)
Southern coast of
Bolshevik Island:
Solnechny Bay (78°11’N, 103°7’E)
Bolshevik Island:
Akhmatov Fjord (79°30‘N, 103°12‘E)
Bolshevik Island:
Akhmatov Fjord (79°30‘N, 103°12‘E)
Bolshevik Island:
Mikoyan Bay at one of the world's most spectacular iceberg roads
Bolshevik Island:
Mikoyan Bay (79°22‘N, 102°E)
Northeast coast of Bolshevik Island:
iceberg road (79°28‘N, 103°E)
Northeast coast of Bolshevik Island:
iceberg road (79°28‘N, 103°E)