Dunay Islands

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The Dunay Islands, or Duunay Aryta, (Острова Дунай) is a group of islands in the Laptev Sea. They are located close to the mouths of the Lena River, off the northwestern shores of the Lena Delta.

The Dunay islands form a compact cluster; their shores are very irregular with narrow beach ridges, sand bars and swales. The maximum length of the main island is 16 Km and its maximum breadth 8 Km. The island in the SE is called "Ostrov Yegorsha".

The area where these islands lie is subject to severe Arctic weather. Although there are some offshore polynyas towards the north, there is fast ice between the Dunay Islands and the Lena Delta for about nine months every year.[1]

There is a meteorological station in the islands called Dunay. It had some importance during the golden years of the Northern Sea Route. Administratively these islands belong to the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation

[edit] Adjacent islands

  • 15 km to the WSW of Dunay lie the Bulgunnyakhtakh-Belkey Islands (Ostrova Bulgunnyakhtakh-Bëlkëy). These are five small islands in a chain 73.834° N 123.811° E. The largest one is only 4 km in length. Although located farther offshore, they are a continuation of the Lena delta islands.
  • 33 km to the west of Dunay's westernmost tip lie two very narrow "C"-shaped islands. The southern one is called Samoleta Island (Ostrov Samolëta) 73.865° N 123.125° E, and the northern one Aerosyemki Islands (Ostrova Aeros"yëmki) 73.957° N 123.17° E. Both these islands are little more than long curved landspits of over 10 km across and less than a few hundred meters wide. Their curve is open towards the east. While Samoleta is a long, continuous landspit, Aerosyemki is broken in no les than three places, forming four separate smaller islands.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Polynyas and frozen surface in the Laptev Sea during the winter
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Flag of Russia Laptev Sea Islands (Russian Arctic)
Aerosyemki Islands  • Anzhu Islands  • Arangastakh  • Belkovsky Island  • Bolshevik Island  • Bolshoy Begichev Island  • Brusneva Island  • Bulgunnyakhtakh-Belkey Islands  • Chychas-Aryta Island  • Daldalakh Island  • Dallalakh Island  • Dunay Islands  • Dzhyangylakh Island  • Faddey Islands  • Great Lyakhovsky Island  • Komsomolets Island  • Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands  • Kotelny Island  • Little Lyakhovsky Island • Lena Delta Islands  • Lyakhovsky Islands  • Makar Island  • Maliy Begichev Island  • Maly Taymyr Island  • Muostakh Island  • Nanosnyy  • New Siberian Islands  • Orto Ary  • Peschanyy Island  • Petrushka Island  • Preobrazheniya Island  • Psov Island  • Sagastyr  • Saint Andrew Island  • Saint Peter Islands  • Samoleta  • Salkay Island  • Samakh Ary Dyete  • Semyonovsky Island  • Severnaya Zemlya  • Shelonsky Islands  • Starokadomsky Island  • Stolbovoy Island  • Vo'smogo Marta  • Vilkitsky Islands  • Yarok

Coordinates: 73°51′N 124°31′E / 73.85, 124.517

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