Schmidt Island (russian: Остров Шмидта) is one of the islands of the
Severnaya Zemlya
Severnaya Zemlya (russian: link=no, Сéверная Земля́ (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago ...
group in the
Russia
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Arctic
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and was named after Soviet scientist and first head of the
Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route
The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (russian: Главное Управление Северного Морского Пути , translit=Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo puti), also known as Glavsevmorput or GUSMP (russian: ГУ ...
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Otto Schmidt
Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, be, Ота Юльевіч Шміт, Ota Juljevič Šmit (born Otto Friedrich Julius Schmidt; – 7 September 1956), better known as Otto Schmidt, was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesm ...
. It is located at the far northwestern end of the archipelago and lies slightly south of the Arctic Cape on Komsomolets Island.
Geography
Schmidt Island is significantly detached from the rest of Severnaya Zemlya regarding the relative proximity of the other main islands to each other.
It measures and is almost entirely covered by the Schmidt Ice Cap. Owing to its exposed position, the climate in the Schmidt Island's area is much colder than in the rest of the archipelago.
[http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/personal/MartinSiegert/Bassford_eal_AAAR_2006a.pdf ]
File:Schmidt-Insel 1 2014-09-01.jpg, Schmidt Island (Sewernaja Semlja, 81°12’N, 91°10‘E)
File:Schmidt-Insel 2 2014-09-01.jpg, The ice cap covering Schmidt Island
See also
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List of glaciers of Russia
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* Academy of Sciences Glacier () – Severnaya Zemlya. Largest single ice formation ...
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Islands of the Kara Sea
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