Gogenloe Island

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The Hohenlohe Island (Russian остров Гогенлоэ, Ostrow Gogenloe ) is an uninhabited island of belonging to Russia Arctic Franz Josef Land.

It is separated from the Rudolf Island, the northernmost island of the archipelago, by about 10 km wide Neumayer Sound. About 10 km south-west is located the Karl Alexander Island. Hohenlohe Island are offshore northeast Oktjabrjata the rock islands ( Острова Октябрята ).

With a length of about eight kilometers and a surface area of 38 square kilometers, the Hohenlohe- island belongs to the small group of islands. It is almost entirely of two merging flat ice caps covered with a height of about 200 m. Some rocky headlands protrude from the ice sheet, particularly the striking Cape Schroetter in the north, named after Anton Schroetter of Kristelli.

The island was discovered during the Austria -Hungarian North Polar Expedition in April 1874 and named by Julius Payer after the Frankish noble family Hohenlohe. Leaving behind his exhausted team at Cape Schroetter Payer reached from here with two companions, the Rudolf Island and the end point of his expedition, the Cape Fligely. The Payer - Weyprecht memory expedition that followed the tracks Payers, ended in May 2005 at the Cape Schroetter.