Salm Island (; Ostrov Sal'm) is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.[ Islands - UNEP]
Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander,[ Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten] one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged.
Geography
Salm Island is almost completely
glacierized except for two headlands in its western and its southern shore. The Chernyshev Ice Cap
(Lednik Chernysheva) covers most of the island.
[ Salm Insel - Franz-Joseph-Land] Salm Island's maximum length is and its area is . The highest point of the island is 343 m high summit of the Chernyshev Ice Cap.
Adjacent smaller islands
Salm Island is surrounded by smaller islands.
Ostrova Bisernyye are two small islets located right off Salm Island's southern shore.
Wilczek Island
Southwest of Salm Island lies long
Wilczek Island (остров Вильчека) —which should not be confused with
Wilczek Land in the same archipelago. It is separated from Salm Island by a wide sound. This island is named after Austro-Hungarian nobleman Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek.
Lütke Island
southeast of Salm Island lies small and round '''Lütke Island''' (остров Литке). Its area is and it was named after Russian Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke.
Hochstetter Islands
A few miles to the northeast lie the
Hochstetter Islands (острова Гохштеттера or острова Хохштеттера), made up of a long by wide island,
Hochstetter Island (also known as
Gogstettera Yuzhnyy), and two smaller islets
Gogstettera Sredniy and
ostrov Al'batros. The Hochstetter Islands are named after the German
Hochstetter princely dynasty of the Austro Hungarian Empire.
Koldewey Island
Roughly north lies long
Koldewey Island (остров Kольдевея), named after Captain
Carl Koldewey leader of the Second German Expedition to the Arctic in 1869–70.
[ Captain Carl Koldewey ] Highest point 66 m.
Schoenau Island
Off Koldewey Island's northern point lies the smaller
Schoenau Island (остров Шёнау). This island was named after Teplitz-Schönau (now
Teplice,
Czech Republic), the birthplace of Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer Julius Payer, who made the discovery of Franz Josef Land, when he led, as Commander at Shore, the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition together with Commander at Sea
Karl Weyprecht.
See also
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