Taymyr Strait information

Taymyr Strait (Russian: Таймырский пролив) is a 3 km-wide strait in Russia. It separates Taymyr Island from Taymyr Peninsula, and connects the Palander...

The Taymyr Peninsula (Russian: Таймырский полуостров, romanized: Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal...

located west of the Taymyr Gulf in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. The narrow strait between Taymyr island and the...

Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal...

entrance to the Vilkitsky Strait from the east, and the Firnley Islands do so from the west. The shores on the side of the Taymyr Peninsula are covered with...

107°15′E / 78.117°N 107.250°E / 78.117; 107.250. The Vilkitsky Strait runs south of Maly Taymyr Island and its waters, as well as the waters surrounding the...

Red Army Strait (Russian: Пролив Красной Армии, Proliv Krasnoy Army) is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is named after the Red Army (Krasnaya...

that now bears his name (Vilkitsky Island), as well as the islands of Maly Taymyr and neighboring Starokadomsky. In 1914–1915, Vilkitsky's expedition made...

The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena. Khatanga settlement & Taymyr area information and pictures: [1] Archived 2008-04-13 at the Wayback Machine...

18 mi) north of the west coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. On 23 August more ships were seen in the Vilkitsky Strait, between the Taimyr Peninsula and Bolshevik...

Ostrov Lishniy off its northern tip. The group formed by the smaller Maly Taymyr and Starokadomsky islands is located further offshore off the southeastern...

Wales Strait on the northwest side of Victoria Island. M'Clure Strait to the northwest is ice-filled; southwest through the Prince of Wales Strait between...

Yuny Strait (Russian: Юный пролив) is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is covered with ice most of the year. Initially named Proliv Yungshturm...

North America, and the borders follow topographic features: the Bering Strait on the Pacific side and the Greenland Scotland Ridge on the Atlantic side...

expedition explores the mouth of the Yenisey River and the coast of the Taymyr Peninsula 1712: Merkury Vagin and Yakov Permyakov explore the vicinity of...

the Svalbard archipelago, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya to the Taymyr Peninsula. It is situated south of the underwater ridge Gakkel Ridge roughly...

vessels and seven nuclear-powered icebreakers (“Yamal”, "50 Let Pobedy", "Taymyr", "Vaygach", "Arctic", "Siberia" and "Ural"). The last three are the latest...

Shokalsky Strait (Russian: Пролив Шокальского) is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. The Shokalsky Strait is an up to a 50 km-wide strait that separates...

east, from Karelia and the Kola Peninsula to Nenetsia, the Gulf of Ob, the Taymyr Peninsula and the Chukchi Peninsula (Kolyma, Anadyr River, Cape Dezhnev)...

of the Russian Hydrographic Service, but he was unaware that there was a strait west of the cape between what is now Bolshevik Island and the islands further...

sailed the waters of the Kara Sea in order to discover land north of the Taymyr Peninsula, but was unable to reach the peninsula's shores owing to thick...

Vladivostok and Pevek in the east. The areas around the Taymyr Peninsula, including the Vilkitsky Strait, see next to no shipping at all. The polar station...

He reached Hudson Strait on the first of August. By the end of the month, Terror was beset by ice somewhere east of Frozen Strait. It remained icebound...

with a relatively flat relief separating the Byrranga Mountains of the Taymyr Peninsula in the north from the Central Siberian Plateau in the south. Area...

Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago separates two marginal...

Ostrov Vesenniy is the easternmost one. The Vilkitsky Strait runs south of Starokadomsky and Maly Taymyr. Its waters, as well as the waters surrounding the...