Russian: Ляховские острова Lyakhovskiye ostrova) are the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the arctic seas of eastern Russia. They are separated from the mainland by the Dmitry Laptev Strait (60 km wide), and from the Anzhu Islands group by the Sannikov Strait (50 km). Two islands dominate the group:
Great Lyakhovsky Island (Большой Ляховский: Bolshoy Lyakhovsky) 4,600 km with a maximum altitude of 270 m on Emy Tas
Little Lyakhovsky Island (Малый Ляховский: Maly Lyakhovsky) 1,325 km
Other islands in the group are Stolbovoy and Semyonovskiy.
The islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhovsky, who explored them in 1773.
The LyakhovskyIslands (Russian: Ляховские острова Lyakhovskiye ostrova) are the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the arctic seas of eastern Russia.
Other islands in the group are Stolbovoy and Semyonovskiy.
The islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhovsky, who explored them in 1773.
As a result of his voyages by land and sea in 1739—1742, Laptev described the sea coastline from the mouth of the Lena river to the Cape Bolshoy Baranov (east of the mouth of the Kolyma river), basin and mouth of the Anadyr river, and land route from the Anadyr fortress to the Penzhinskaya Bay.
In 1741—1742, Laptev surveyed the rivers of Bolshoy Anyuy and Anadyr.
A cape in the delta of the Lena river and a strait between the BolshoyLyakhovskyIsland and Asian mainland bear his name.
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