Native name: остров Ярок | |
|---|---|
 Yarok and adjacent islands | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Laptev Sea |
| Coordinates | 71°32′N137°40′E / 71.533°N 137.667°E /71.533; 137.667 |
| Length | 38 km (23.6 mi) |
| Width | 26 km (16.2 mi) |
| Administration | |
Russia | |
| Republic | Sakha |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
Yarok Island (Russian:остров Ярок) is a coastal island in theLaptev Sea, amarginal sea of theArctic Ocean. The island is located off the mouths of theChondon, east of theYana river.[1]
Administratively, Yarok Island is part ofUst-Yansky District,Sakha Republic (Yakutia),Russia.[2][3]
Yarok Island is large and flat. It has many small lakes, swamps and sandbars. Its length is 38 kilometers (24 mi) and its maximum breadth is 26 kilometers (16 mi).[4]
The Chondon bay, the coastal area off which Yarok Island lies, is an extensive wetland zone.[5] It is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. Further north, the sea in theYana Bay is frozen with thick ice for about eight months every year, so that Yarok is merged with the mainland.[6]
In 1712,Yakov Permyakov and his companionMerkury Vagin, the first recordedRussian explorers of the area, crossed theYana Bay from the mouth of the Yana River toBolshoy Lyakhovsky Island over the ice and explored the then unknown island. Unfortunately Permyakov and Vagin were killed on the way back from their exploration by mutineering expedition members.[7]
In 1892–1894, BaronEduard Toll, accompanied by expedition leaderAlexander Bunge, carried out geological surveys in the Yana delta area on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences located inSt. Petersburg.
