Voronina Island

The Voronin Islands (Russian Острова Воронина, Ostrowa Woronina ) are two uninhabited islands in the Kara Sea, Russia. Administratively, the island group belongs to Rajon Taimyr in the Krasnoyarsk region. The islands were discovered in August of 1930 by the icebreaker Sedov and are named after Vladimir Voronin, captain of the icebreaker Alexander Sibiryakov and later head of the Soviet polar expedition of the year 1932.

Geography

The Woronin islands are relatively isolated in the northeastern Kara Sea, 72 km northeast of the Kirov Islands, about 100 km north- west of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, and about 130 km south-west of Severnaya Zemlya. Even in the summer months thaws the Kara Sea here only rarely, so that the islands are almost all year round surrounded by pack ice. The group consists of the larger Voronin Island (Russian Остров Воронина ) with a length of 7.5 km and a width of 3.3 km and a small and narrow island north side of them with dimensions of 2 × 0,5 km; both islands are separated from each other by a 2-km wide estuary. The islands are consistently flat and reach a height of 17 m above the sea. The Voronin Islands are a part of the Bolshoi Arktitscheski Sapowednik ( Большой Арктический государственный природный заповедник ), the largest nature reserve of Russia.