Arkticheskiy Institut Islands

The islands of the Arctic Institute (Russian Острова Арктического института, Ostrowa Arktitscheskogo Instituta ) are an uninhabited group of islands in the Kara Sea off the north coast of Russia. Administratively, the island group belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The islands were discovered in 1932 under the direction of Otto Schmidt Yulievich Soviet polar expedition with the icebreaker Alexander Sibiryakov and named after the Arctic Institute of the USSR (now " Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute ").

Geography

The islands of the Arctic Institute located around 150 km northwest of the Siberian coast and 45 km south of the Izvestia - ZIK Islands. The group consists of a large main island ( Ostrow Bolshoi ) and three smaller islands. The main island stretches nearly 40 km in the north-south direction and is up to 18 km wide. Numerous spits - especially in the west of the main island - enclose several lagoons. The islands are consistently flat and reach a height of 25 meters above the sea. The islands of the Arctic Institute are part of the Bolshoi Arktitscheski Sapowednik, (Russian Большой Арктический государственный природный заповедник ), the largest nature reserve of Russia.