New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands (Russian Новосибирские острова / Nowossibirskije Ostrowa, Yakut: Саҥа Сибиир арыылара / Sana Sibiir aryylara ) lie north of eastern Siberia on the geographical coordinates 73-77 ° N, 135-151 ° East. The area of 400 × 500 km bordering the East Siberian Sea from the Laptev Sea. They belong to the Russian republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) and are managed by Ulus Bulun from.
The group consists of four major islands over 10,000 km ² and smaller ones in the area. They are geographically from south to north in the Liakhov Islands, divides the Anschuinseln and the De Long Islands. From the Siberian mainland separates the Laptev Strait, between Liakhov and Anschuinseln runs the Sannikowstraße. West of the Liakhov Islands ( about 400 miles) flows of electricity Lena with its huge size as the delta into the Arctic Ocean.
History
Individual islands of the archipelago were sighted in 1710 by Cossack Yakov Permyakov. In 1712 he led a Cossack unit under Merkury Wagin to the place of its discovery, crossed the Laptev street with dog sled and the Great Liakhov Island entered. 1773/74 saw Ivan Liakhov the island Kotelny, which was mapped in 1821 by Pyotr Anschu. More discoveries, particularly in the area of Anschu Islands, go back to Yakov Sannikov and Mathias Hedenström of 1805 and 1806.
George W. DeLong led an American expedition from 1879 to 1881 in the area of the New Siberian Islands; there he discovered named after him De Long Islands. Hoping to drift to the North Pole, was the Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1893 his ship, the Fram, freeze in the New Siberian Islands in the ice (see Nansen's Fram expedition ).
Climate
On the New Siberian Islands have polar climate. Annual average temperature: -14 ° C. The warmest month of July with about 2.5 ° C. Coldest Month: February -29 ° C. The annual rainfall is 131 mm and is almost evenly distributed over the year, with a slight maximum in July and August.
Special
On the islands of rich pickings in bones of mammoths, rhinos and hippos and associated teeth and tusks have been made. These tusks have been since ancient times spent in the south for processing.