Ushakov Island
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Geography
Ushakov Island is located close to the region of permanent sea ice midway between Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya, at the northern limit of the Kara Sea.[3] This island lies close to the limit of permanent ice; it is desolate and subject to severe Arctic storms. Its total area is Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] This island belongs to the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia. Owing to its extreme northerly location, the sea surrounding Ushakov Island is covered with pack ice in the winter and is full of ice floes during the summer. The closest land is Vize Island Script error: No such module "convert". further south.[5]
Ice cap
Ushakov Island is covered by an ice cap.[6] The highest point of this glacial feature is Script error: No such module "convert"..[7] The rocky ground below the icemass is flat and part of it lies below sea level. The edges of the ice cap form Script error: No such module "convert". to Script error: No such module "convert". high icy cliffs along the shore.[2] The surface of the ice cap has become Script error: No such module "convert". smaller between 1950 and 2000, but the ice volume has grown from Script error: No such module "convert". to Script error: No such module "convert".. The average thickness of the ice having increased from Script error: No such module "convert". to Script error: No such module "convert"..[4]
Climate
Ushakov island has an ice cap climate (EF), bordering on a tundra climate (ET; average high in July is above freezing, meaning some snow can melt), owing to its location at 81 N and ~20 miles from the limit of permanent sea ice. Summers are very cold and dry, while winters are extremely frigid and virtually without precipitation.
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History
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The expedition that discovered the island was led by polar explorer, cartographer and oceanographer Georgiy Alekseevich Ushakov aboard Icebreaker Sadko, after whom the island was named. The first wintering in Ushakov Island was undertaken in 1954–55 and a polar station was established in 1954. This was abandoned during the 1980s and when an expedition visited the island in 2001, they found two small buildings partly sunken into the ice.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ Summary of the Arctic Archipelagos and Islands. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
- ↑ a b Andrey F. Glazovskiy: Russian Arctic, Chapter 2.7 in: Jacek Jania, Jon Ove Hagen (Ed.): Mass Balance of Arctic Glaciers (PDF; 132 kB), IASC Report No. 5, Sosnowiec-Oslo 1996.
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- ↑ a b Aleksey I. Sharov, Roland Pail, Roland Perko, Daniel Rieser, Florian Heuberger, Christoph Gisinger: Variations of the Arctic Ice-Snow Cover in Nonhomogeneous Geopotential (PDF; 660 kB). In: Proc. ESA Living Planet Symposium, Bergen, Norway 28 June – 2 July 2010 (ESA SP-686, December 2010)
- ↑ Google Earth
- ↑ Arctic Glaciers; Ushakov Island
- ↑ V. V. Bogorodsky, C. R. Bentley, P. E. Gudmandsen: Radioglaciology, D. Reidel, Dordrecht 1985, Template:ISBN, Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"., S. 5
- ↑ полярная станция Остров Ушакова Template:In lang. Archived. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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