Salm Island (russian: остров Сальм; ) is a roughly round-shaped island in

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. Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, 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 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

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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

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Koldewey Island

Roughly north lies long

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(остров Kольдевея), named after Captain

Carl Koldewey Carl Christian Koldewey (26 October 1837 – 17 May 1908) was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions. Life and career Koldewey was the son of merchant Johann Christian Koldewey and his wife Wilhelmine Meyer. Koldewey ...

leader of the Second German Expedition to the Arctic in 1869–70. 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

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), the birthplace of Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer

Julius Payer Julius Johannes Ludovicus Ritter von Payer (2 September 1841, – 29 August 1915), ennobled Ritter von Payer in 1876, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, mountaineer, arctic explorer, cartographer, painter, and professor at the Ther ...

, who made the discovery of

, when he led, as Commander at Shore, the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition together with Commander at Sea

Karl Weyprecht Karl Weyprecht, also spelt Carl Weyprecht, (8 September 1838 – 2 March 1881) was an Austro-Hungarian explorer. He was an officer (''k.u.k. Linienschiffsleutnant'') in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He is most famous as an Arctic explorer, and a ...

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