Schmidt Island

Schmidt

Russian: Остров Шмидта
Schmidt Island, Russia.
Geography
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	81°04′59″N 90°25′01″E / 81.083°N 90.417°E / 81.083; 90.417
Archipelago	Severnaya Zemlya
Area	467 km2 (180 sq mi)
Administration
Russia
Demographics
Population	0

Schmidt Island (Russian: Остров Шмидта) is part of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic and was named after Soviet scientist and first head of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Otto Schmidt. It is located at the far northwestern end of the archipelago and lies slightly south of the Arctic Cape on Komsomolets Island.

Geography

Schmidt Island is significantly detached from the rest of Severnaya Zemlya regarding the relative proximity of the other main islands to each other.

It measures 467 km² (180 sq mi) and is almost entirely covered by the Schmidt Ice Cap. Owing to its exposed position, the climate in the Schmidt Island's area is much colder than in the rest of the archipelago.^[1]

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  Schmidt Island (Sewernaja Semlja, 81°12’N, 91°10‘E)
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  View of the ice cap covering Schmidt Island

See also

• List of glaciers of Russia
• List of islands of Russia

References

External links

+ Media related to Schmidt Island at Wikimedia Commons

Islands of the Kara Sea (Russian Arctic)
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Coordinates: 81°04′59″N 90°25′01″E / 81.083°N 90.417°E / 81.083; 90.417