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Salkay Island, or Salkay Aryta, is an island in the Laptev Sea. It is located on the western side of the Olenek Bay, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) to the WNW from the Olenek Delta. Its length is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) and its maximum breadth 3 kilometres (1.9 mi). The name of this island can be also spelt as "Salkhay" and "Salkyy".

• Only 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to the north there is another island, Orto Ary. It is slightly smaller, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long and 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) wide.
• Daldalakh is an island immediately north of Orto-Ary which is almost attached to the mainland, separated from it by a very narrow canal on its northwestern side. Daldalakh is 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) long and 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) wide.

The area where these islands lie is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. The sea around these islands is frozen for about nine months every year so that they all are merged with the mainland most of the time.

References

• "Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) in Russian Federation State". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
• "Geographical data". Archived from the original on January 29, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
• "Ostrov Salkay". Retrieved November 8, 2011.

v t e Islands of the Laptev Sea (Russian Arctic)

Aerosyomki Anzhu Islands Arangastakh Belkovsky Island Bolshevik Bolshoy Begichev Brusneva Bulgunnyakhtakh-Belkey Chychas-Aryta Daldalakh Dallalakh Dunay Islands Dzhyangylakh Faddey Islands Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Komsomolets Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands Kotelny Lena Delta Islands Leykina Maly Lyakhovsky Lyakhovsky Islands Makar Island Maliy Begichev Maly Taymyr Muostakh Nanosnyy New Siberian Islands Orto Ary Peschany Petrushka Preobrazheniya Psov Island Sagastyr Saint Andrew Island Saint Peter Islands Salkay Samakh Ary Dyete Samolyota Semyonovsky Severnaya Zemlya Shelonsky Islands Starokadomsky Stolbovoy Vos'mogo Marta Vilkitsky Islands Yarok Yaya Zalivnyye Islands

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