Vize Island
The meadow Island (Russian Остров Визе / Ostrow Wise, also Земля Визе / Zemlya Wise on English maps Vice Iceland ) is one at the northern end of the isolated location of the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean, 288 km ² large Russian island. The oceanographer Professor Vladimir meadow discovered from the location of the island from the desk, by examining the flow and calculated the way of the schooner St. Anna of the polar expedition Georgi Brussilov the floating ice.
Geography
The meadow Island is located approximately midway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya. It belongs administratively to the Russian Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The island is constantly exposed to extreme arctic storms, but has no glaciers. In summer, large areas of the island are of snow and ice. Even in the warmest months of the year, barely exceeds the temperature of the zero bound. The minimum temperature that has been measured since the start of weather observation was -52.0 ° С, the average annual amount of rainfall is 242 mm. Precipitation falls mainly as snow. Compared with other Arctic islands highest point is relatively low at 22 m. The nearest land is the lone Ushakov Island, which is located 140 km to the north. The sea surrounding the meadow - island is covered in winter with ice and even in summer with ice floes.
History
1912 drifted the schooner St. Anna trapped under the leadership of Georgi Brusilov in the ice of the Kara Sea. In 1914, part of the crew the ship to try to return on foot over the ice to civilization. The first mate of the St. Anna, Walerian Albanow, was able to rescue the ship's deck log. Albanow and the sailor Conrad were the only survivors of the Brusilov expedition.
1924 studied the Soviet oceanographer and Arctic explorer Vladimir Yulievich the meadow Driftweg of St. Anna. The cause of a deviation of the sea flow, which he found it, he suspected the existence of an island whose geographical coordinates he could be calculated from the data of the ice drift of St. Anna exact.
The island was discovered on August 13, 1930 by an expedition with the icebreaker Sedov headed by Otto Schmidt Yulievich. Wiese, who was a participant of the expedition was able to walk on the island by himself theoretically predicted on land. She was named after him. The hydro-meteorological polar station on the meadow Island - one of the northernmost stations in the world - started on 1 November 1945 with the research activity. The first wintering on the island was carried out from 1945 to 1946.