Anzhu Islands

As Anschuinseln (Russian Острова Анжу, scientific transliteration Ostrova to, Yakut арыылара Анжу, Anzhu aryylara ) the central group of islands belonging to Russia Siberian Islands is called.

The main island is Kotelny ( Остров Котельный ), with 11,665 km ² the largest island of the New Siberian Islands, the country over the Bunge ( 6200 km ²) case by case basis with the Faddejewski Island ( Остров Фаддеевский 5,300 km ²) connected. Other islands are New Siberia ( Новая Сибирь, 6,200 km ² ) and the Belkovski Island ( остров Бельковский, about 500 km ²).

As the first European to Russian traders Ivan Liakhov likely to have visited 1772-1773 Kotelny, Yakov Sannikov discovered in 1805 Faddejewski Island, from 1808 to 1810, he explored together with Matvei Gedenstrom the islands. In this expedition the other islands were discovered and mapped. 1820 Pyotr Anschu charted the area. According to him, the archipelago was named.

In the north of Anschuinseln long been suspected phantom island " Sannikov Land", Gedenstrom suspected north of the archipelago a driveway in an ice-free zone of the Arctic Ocean.