Alger Island, Russia
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Geography
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Alger Island is located north of McClintock Island, separated from it by a Script error: No such module "convert". narrow sound.
Off Alger Island's southwestern shores lies Ostrov Matil'dy (Остров Матильды), a very small, barely Script error: No such module "convert". long, island.
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History
The island was discovered in 1899 by Walter Wellman on board the Capella. He named it after U.S. Secretary of War Russell A. Alger who had donated $250 to Wellman's expedition.[2]
The wintering site of the 1901 failed American Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition was on Alger Island.[3]
See also
References
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External links
- UNEP - Islands Template:Webarchive
- Names in Russian: ru:Список островов России
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