Salkay Island

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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 Km to the WNW from the Olenek Delta. Its length is 7 Km and its maximum breadth 3 Km. The name of this island can be also spelt as "Salkhay" and "Salkyy".

  • Only 1.5 Km to the north there is another island, Orto Ary. It is slightly smaller, 5 Km long and 2.7 Km 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 Km long and 3.3 Km wide.

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

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Flag of Russia Laptev Sea Islands (Russian Arctic)
Aerosyemki Islands  • Anzhu Islands  • Arangastakh  • Belkovsky Island  • Bolshevik Island  • Bolshoy Begichev Island  • Brusneva Island  • Bulgunnyakhtakh-Belkey Islands  • Chychas-Aryta Island  • Daldalakh Island  • Dallalakh Island  • Dunay Islands  • Dzhyangylakh Island  • Faddey Islands  • Great Lyakhovsky Island  • Komsomolets Island  • Komsomolskaya Pravda Islands  • Kotelny Island  • Little Lyakhovsky Island • Lena Delta Islands  • Lyakhovsky Islands  • Makar Island  • Maliy Begichev Island  • Maly Taymyr Island  • Muostakh Island  • Nanosnyy  • New Siberian Islands  • Orto Ary  • Peschanyy Island  • Petrushka Island  • Preobrazheniya Island  • Psov Island  • Sagastyr  • Saint Andrew Island  • Saint Peter Islands  • Samoleta  • Salkay Island  • Samakh Ary Dyete  • Semyonovsky Island  • Severnaya Zemlya  • Shelonsky Islands  • Starokadomsky Island  • Stolbovoy Island  • Vo'smogo Marta  • Vilkitsky Islands  • Yarok

Coordinates: 73°338′N 118°751′E / 78.633, 130.517

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