Sverdrup Island (Kara Sea)
Russian island in the Kara Sea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the archipelago in Nunavut, Canada, see Sverdrup Islands. For the island in Greenland, see Sverdrup Island (Greenland).
Sverdrup Island (Russian: Остров Свердрупа) is an isolated Russian island in the southern region of the Kara Sea.
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Native name: Остров Свердрупа | |
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Location of Sverdrup Island in the Kara Sea | |
Geography | |
Location | Kara Sea |
Coordinates | 74°35′N 79°27′E |
Area | 70 km2 (27 sq mi) |
Length | 15 km (9.3 mi) |
Width | 10 km (6 mi) |
Highest elevation | 33 m (108 ft) |
Administration | |
Krai | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Okrug | Taymyr Autonomous Okrug |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 |
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Sverdrup Island is named after Norwegian polar explorer and ship Captain Otto Sverdrup who sighted it on 18 August 1893 during the Fram Expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen.[1]