Mona Islands

The poppy Islands (Russian острова Мона, Ostrowa Mona, Mona therefore Islands) are an uninhabited group of islands in the Kara Sea off the north coast of Russia. The eleven islands are located 30 km west of the Taimyr peninsula and rise to its highest point, on the Krawkow island, 42 meters above the sea level. Administratively, the island group belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The group was named by Fridtjof Nansen after the meteorologist Henrik Mohn ( 1835-1916 ). The islands are part of the nature reserve Large Arctic Sapowednik.

The poppy Islands include:

• Krawkow Island ( остров Кравкова )
• Hercules Island ( остров Геркулес )
• Ringnes Island ( остров Рингнес )
• Granitny ( остров Гранитный )
• Uski ( остров Узкий )
• Kraini ( остров Крайний )

And five smaller offshore islands.

History

The archipelago was discovered on August 26, 1893 by Nansen's Fram expedition. Nansen also called the Ringnes Island to a financier of the expedition.

1933-1934 poppy Islands were mapped by a Soviet expedition led by Vsevolod Ivanovich Vorobiev ( 1898-1984 ). The Krawkow Island received its present name after the hydro Count Sergei Nikolayevich Krawkow ( 1894-1941 ). The expedition discovered on the island remains of Hercules since 1912, lost in the Kara Sea ship Vladimir Alexandrovich Russanows. A plaque commemorates today about it.

During the Second World War, German submarines and warships made ​​in the field of poppies Islands hunting on Russian convoys, especially during the company's Wonderland.

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union operation in the west of the island temporarily Krawkow a weather station.