Kolchak Island

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Kolchak Island is part of the Kamenyye group

Kolchak Island (Russian: остров Колчака) is the thirst largest island of the Kamennyye Islands. It is located in the Kara Sea close to the shores of the Taymyr Peninsula, about 30 km from the coast. Winters are long, cold and bitter, and the surrounding sea freezes solid about ten months every year.

This island is named after Aleksandr Kolchak, its discoverer and explorer. He had joined Eduard Toll's 1900 arctic expedition, which explored many little-known islands of the Kara Sea.

Kolchak Island was first ployed on a map in 1901. In 1937 the Soviet government renamed it after Stepan Rastorguyev and for a few decades there were two Rastorguyev Islands in the Kara Sea. Finally, on August 23, 2005 the former name of the island was restored.

[edit] See also

• Kamennyye Islands
• Rastorguyev Island

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Coordinates: 73°57′N 84°09′E / 73.95, 84.15