Yarok Island

Location of Yarok Island in the Laptev Sea.

Yarok Island and adjacent islands.

Yarok Island (Ostrov Yarok) is an island in the Laptev Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. The island 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.

History

In 1712 Yakov Permyakov and his companion Merkury Vagin, the first recorded Russian explorers of the area, crossed the Yana Bay from the mouth of the Yana River to Bolshoy Lyakhovsky over the ice and explored the then unknown island. Unfortunately Permyakov and Vagin were killed on the way back from their exploration by mutineering expedition members.

In 1892–1894 Baron Eduard Von Toll, accompanied by expedition leader Alexander von Bunge, carried out geological surveys in the Yana delta area on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences located in Saint Petersburg.

References

• Geographical data
• Location

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

Coordinates: 71°32′N 137°40′E / 71.533°N 137.667°E / 71.533; 137.667