Zhokhova Island

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Zhokhova Island (Остров Жохова in Russian) is one of the islands in a group of the Arctic De Long Islands in the East Siberian Sea. Area: approx. 58 km². The highest point of the island is 123 m.

Zhokhova Island was discovered by a Russian hydrographic expedition on the ships Vaigach and Taymyr. It is named after A.Zhokhov, a member of the expedition.

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The island is mentioned in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a place where Russians built the doomsday device.

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