Shokalsky Island

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The Schokalski Island (Russian Остров Шокальского, Ostrow Schokalskowo ) is a Russian island in the southern Kara Sea. Administratively it belongs to the autonomous district of the Yamal- Nenets in Tyumen Oblast. The island is named after July Mikhailovich Schokalski, a Russian oceanographer and cartographer, as well as President of the Russian Geographical Society.

Geography

The Schokalski Island lies at the eastern end of the Obbusens, as a direct continuation of the north-western part of the Gydan Peninsula. From this it is by only a few kilometers wide and penetrated by numerous small islands Gydanski Street ( Гыданский пролив ) separately. As this is, however, ice most of the year, the island is actually connected to the mainland. The Schokalski Island is about 30 km long, up to 20 km wide and has an area of ​​426.4 km ². The embossed Tundra island is mostly flat and reaches a height of only 27 m above sea level. The island is part of the 1996 furnished Sapowedniks Gydan, one of the larger nature reserves in Russia.