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Hovgaard Island
Ostrov Khovgarda

Native name: остров Ховгарда
Hovgaard IslandLocation in the Nordenskjold Archipelago
Geography
Location	Kara Sea
Coordinates	76°21′50″N 95°5′36″E / 76.36389°N 95.09333°E / 76.36389; 95.09333
Archipelago	Nordenskiöld Archipelago
Length	3 km (1.9 mi)
Width	0.9 km (0.56 mi)
Highest elevation	13 m (43 ft)
Administration
Russia
Federal subject	Krasnoyarsk Krai
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Hovgaard Island (Russian: остров Ховгарда, ostrov Khovgarda) is an island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago in the Kara Sea, off the coast of Siberia.

Administratively this island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.

Geography

Hovgaard Island is located in the southwestern area of the archipelago on the northern side of the Matisen Strait. The island is 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) long and has a maximum width of little less than 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) in its southern part.

It is part of the Vilkitsky Islands (острова Вилькицкого) —also known as 'Dzhekman Islands'— subgroup of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago. The closest islands are Dzhekman Island 3.4 kilometers (2.1 mi) to the northwest and Ovalnyy Island 2.3 kilometers (1.4 mi) to the northeast. Hovgaard Island lies about 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) north of Nansen Island and less than 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northwest of the NW point of Taymyr Island across the Matisen Strait.

The climate in the archipelago is severe and the sea surrounding the island is covered with fast ice in the winter and often obstructed by pack ice even in the summer.

History

In 1900, the islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago were explored by Russian Navy Captain Fyodor Matisen during the Polar Expedition on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences led by geologist Baron Eduard Von Toll aboard ship Zarya.

This island was named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy who led an expedition to the Kara Sea on steamship Dijmphna in 1882-83.

Further reading

• Albert Hastings Markham. Arctic Exploration, 1895

References

1. "Ostrov Khovgarda". Mapcarta. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
2. Nature Reserve Archived October 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ Google Earth
4. "Fast ice conditions near the Nordenskjold Archipelago" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
5. Armstrong, T., The Russians in the Arctic, London, 1958.
6. Early Soviet Exploration

External links

• Ostrov Khovgarda: Russia

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