Chikil ( az, Çigil adasi), also known as Oblivnoy, is an uninhabited island off the Bay of
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
,
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
. This island is part of the
Baku Archipelago, which consists of the following islands:
Boyuk Zira,
Dash Zira,
Qum Island
Qum Island or Peschanniy (russian: о́стров Песча́ный; 'Sandy Island'), Azeri: Qum adası) is an island in the Bay of Baku, in the Caspian Sea.
Geography
Qum Island is in length with a maximum width of . It is a part of the Sur ...
or Peschanny,
Zenbil
Zanbil ( az, Zənbil) is a small island in the Caspian Sea off the Bay of Baku, Azerbaijan. It is also known as Duvanni Island.
Etymology
The name Zanbil is Persian language, Persian (زنبیل) and means "a big basket". The name "Duvanni" (Д ...
, Sangi-Mugan, Chikil,
Qara Su Qara may refer to:
Places
*Al Qara, a governorate in Al Bahah Region, Saudi Arabia
*Qara, Syria, a Syrian city
*Qara Oasis, Egypt
Persons
*Qara Iskander, ruled the Kara Koyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420 to 1436
*Qara Mahammad Töremi ...
,
Khara Zira,
Gil,
Ignat Dash and a few smaller ones.
Ecology
Chikil's surrounding waters are very shallow. There is very little vegetation on the island due to oil pollution as well as other factors.
Caspian seal
The Caspian seal (''Pusa caspica'', syn. ''Phoca caspica'') is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish Caspian Sea. It lives along the shorelines, but also on the many roc ...
s,
sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretace ...
, and numerous types of birds, like teal ducks, herring gulls and grebes, are some of the animal species that can be found on and around the island.
Caspian Sea Biodiversity Project
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References
Uninhabited islands of Azerbaijan
Islands of the Caspian Sea
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