Salm Island

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Location of Salm Island and its neighboring islands in the Franz Josef Archipelago
Location of Salm Island and its neighboring islands in the Franz Josef Archipelago

Salm Island (Russian: Остров Сальм; Ostrov Sal'm) is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Russia.

Salm Island is almost completely glaciarized except for a cape in its southern shore. Its maximum length is 17 km and its area is 344 km². The highest point of the island is 343 m.

Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraeten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged. The Salm-Hoogstraeten dynasty should not be confused with the Hochstetter dynasty.

This island is surrounded by smaller islands.

[edit] Adjacent small islands

  • A few miles to the northeast lie the Hochstetter Islands (Острова Гохштеттера or Острова Хохштеттера), made up of a 6.5 km long by 4 km wide island, Hochstetter Island (also known as Gogstettera Yuzhnyy), and two smaller islets Gogstettera Sredniy and Ostrov Al'batros. The Hochstetter Islands are named after the German Hochstetter princely dinasty of the Austro Hungarian Empire.
  • Roughly north lies 3.7 km long Koldewey Island, (Остров кольдевея), named after Captain Karl Koldewey of ship Hansa. Koldewey was the leader of the "Germania" expedition, the second German expedition to the Arctic in 1869-70. Highest point 66 m.
  • Off Koldewey Island's northern point there is a small islet called Schönau Island (Остров Шёнау). This island was named after Teplitz-Schönau, (now Teplice, Czech Republic), the birthplace of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
  • Southwest of Salm Island lies 10 km long Wilczek Island, (Остров Вильчека) (which should not be confused with Wilczek Land in the same archipelago). It is separated from Salm Island by a 3km wide sound. This island is named after Austro Hungarian nobleman Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek.
  • 4 km southeast of Salm Island lies small and round Litke Island, (Остров Литке). Its area is 14 km² and it was named after Russian Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke.

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Coordinates: 80°04′N 59°16′E / 80.067, 59.267