Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island

The Great Liakhov Island (Russian Большой Ляховский, Yakut Ляхов улахан арыыта ) is the largest and southernmost of the islands in the archipelago Liakhov the New Siberian Islands.

The island is 4600 km ². Your highest with 293 m elevation, the Emy Tas, is located in the extreme southeast near the Cape Schalaurow. The 45- km-wide Laptev Strait separates the island from the Siberian mainland.

She was discovered in 1710 by Yakov Permyakov, that she explored in 1712 together with Merkuri Wagin for the first time. The name of the island dates back to Ivan Liakhov ( Иван Ляхов ), a dealer who found the islands in hopes of mammoth bones and ivory in 1773 explored.