Oleniy Island

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Oleni (Russian Остров Олений, Ostrov Oleni, dt " Reindeer Island ") is a 1197.4 km ² large Russian island of the Arctic Ocean belong to the southern Kara Sea. Administratively, the uninhabited island for Rajon Tasowski heard in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District in the north of the North Siberian Tyumen Oblast.

Geographical location

Oleni is located around 2 km north- west of the coast of belonging to the Asian mainland Gydan Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Oleni Strait, and about 30 km southwest of Sibiryakov Island ( the Krasnoyarsk region belonging ), from which it eastward through the about conducting the Jenisseigolf Owzyna Strait is separated, and east of the Jawai Peninsula, from which it is separated by the northern part of the minimally there about 38.5 kilometers wide Gydanbucht. Upstream from the south of the Oleniinsel are the Prokljatye Islands and north-northwest lies in the Kara Sea, the distant Neupokojewa Island.

The island is more than 53 km long, up to 27 km wide and its coastline is 146.3 km long.

Oleni is part of the 1996 furnished Gydan - Sapowednik, one of the larger nature reserves in Russia.

Landscape, fauna and climate

The coast of Oleni is mostly flat and hardly broken, but traversed particularly in the southeast and south by small bays. In the north, it is preceded by a small sandbar. The topographical shape of the island is divided consistently flat, reach a maximum of 13 m in height and is of small streams that flow directly into the Kara Sea in the surrounding straits, bays or crisscrossed. There are also numerous lakes, most of which are located at the sources of rivers, and out Denkte swampy areas.

As the island is in the vegetation zone tundra, the vegetation is limited to mosses, lichens and grasses. The winters are long and extremely cold, the summers are short and cold. The prevailing permafrost thaw the increasingly more in the summers.

Residents and Fisheries

On the island there are no permanent residents, but in summer, when the sea around the island is less or no longer covered with ice, some live in simple huts fishermen.