Serykh Gusey Islands on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Serykh Gusey Islands (Острова Серых Гусей, ''Ostrova Serykh Gusey''; "Grey Geese Islands") is an island group in the
Wetlands
/ref> The waters around these coastal islands are frozen for about nine or ten months on a yearly average, so that they are merged with the mainland most of the year.
Steller’s Eider in the Serykh Gusey Islands
Islands of the Chukchi Sea Islands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub
Chukchi Sea
Chukchi Sea ( rus, Чуко́тское мо́ре, r=Chukotskoye more, p=tɕʊˈkotskəjə ˈmorʲɪ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west b ...
, located northwest of the shores of the Kolyuchin Bay
Kolyuchin Bay (russian: Колючинская губа; ''Kolyuchinskaya guba'') is a large bay in the Chukchi Sea on the northern shore of the Chukotka Peninsula, Russia.
Administratively this bay belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of th ...
.
Administratively this island group belongs to the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka (russian: Чуко́тка), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,, ''Čukotkakèn avtonomnykèn okrug'', is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian ...
of the Russian Federation
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
.Geography
The islands are in the area of the Belyaka Spit, which encloses the Kolyuchin Bay, isolating it from the Chukchi Sea. The Serykh Gusey Islands are aligned from north to south, being on average about from the coast of theChukotka Peninsula
The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; russian: Чуко́тский полуо́стров, ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form russian: Чуко́тка, ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the eastern ...
.
Yuzhnyy Island is the largest in the Serykh Gusey group, being about in length. The area is marked by sandy flats, beaches and dry crowberry
''Empetrum nigrum'', crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. It is usually dioecious, but there ...
''(Empetrum nigrum)'' tundra. Shingle beaches give way to flat, turf
Sod, also known as turf, is the upper layer of soil with the grass growing on it that is often harvested into rolls.
In Australian and British English, sod is more commonly known as ''turf'', and the word "sod" is limited mainly to agricultu ...
y surfaces. Yuzhnyy Island is dotted with small brackish pools./ref> The waters around these coastal islands are frozen for about nine or ten months on a yearly average, so that they are merged with the mainland most of the year.
See also
*List of islands of Russia
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
External links
Steller’s Eider in the Serykh Gusey Islands
Islands of the Chukchi Sea Islands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub