The Tillo Islands (russian: Острова Тилло, ''Ostrova Tillo'') is a group of small islands covered with tundra vegetation. They stretch along the
Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...
coastal region, right off the bleak coast of
Siberia
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's
Taymyr Peninsula
The Taymyr Peninsula (russian: Таймырский полуостров, Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administrati ...
. Most of the islands of the group are a mere 3 or 4 km from the continental shore.
Geography
The largest island of the group is Pravdy Severa. Its length is 7 km and it has a maximum width of almost 2 km close to its eastern end. There is a lake on the southern side of its western end separated from the sea by a narrow spit. This island is located at the mouth of
Voskresensky Bay, a shallow bay. This bay is enclosed on its western side by the
Polyarnik Peninsula.
The sea surrounding the Tillo Islands is covered with fast ice in the winter, which is long and bitter, and the climate is severe. The surrounding sea is obstructed by pack ice even in the summer, so that these islands are connected with the mainland for most of the year.
This island group belongs to the
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...
administrative division of the
Russian Federation
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. It is also part of the
Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.
History
The Tillo Islands were explored by arctic geologist and prominent scientist
Eduard Toll who led the Russian Polar Expedition on vessel
''Zarya'' in 1900–1902. Sponsored by the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
, this expedition explored the northern shores of the
Russian Empire
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.
This archipelago is named after
Aleksey Tillo, a prominent Russian geographer, cartographer and land surveyor.
On Aleksiy Tillo
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See also
*Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...
*New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands ( rus, Новосиби́рские Oстрова, r=Novosibirskiye Ostrova; sah, Саҥа Сибиир Aрыылара, translit=Saña Sibiir Arıılara) are an archipelago in the Extreme North of Russia, to the north o ...
References
Archipelagoes of the Kara Sea
Archipelagoes of Krasnoyarsk Krai
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