Yarok Island

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Yarok Island (Ostrov Yarok) is an island in the Laptev Sea. It is located off the mouths of the Yana river, only a few kilometres towards the east.

Yarok Island is large and flat. It has many small lakes, swamps and sandbars. Its length is 38 Km and its maximum breadth 26 Km.

The Yana delta, the coastal area off which Yarok Island lies, is an extensive wetland zone. It is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. Further north, the sea in the Yana Bay is frozen with thick ice for about eight months every year, so that Yarok is merged with the mainland.

Administratively Yarok Island belongs to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) of the Russian Federation. The Yana delta area was explored by Baron Eduard Toll and Alexander von Bunge in 1892-1894 during an expedition on behalf of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.


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Coordinates: 71°533′N 137°483′E / 79.883, 145.05