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Encyclopedia > Vaygach

Vaygach Island (Вайгач in Russian) is an island in the Arctic Sea on the border of the Barents Sea and Kara Sea. The Arctic Ocean, located entirely in the north polar region, is the smallest of the worlds five oceans (after the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean), and the shallowest. ... Southeastern portion of Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ... The Kara Sea (Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре) is part of the Arctic Ocean (in the area sometimes called the Arctic Mediterranean Sea) off northern Siberia, bound by the Kara Strait (West, connecting to the Barents Sea) and the Severnaya Zemlya Islands and the Northern Land Archipelago (East, and the Laptev Sea). ...


The Vaygach Island is separated from the mainland and Novaya Zemlya by the Yugorsky Shar Strait and Kara Gate Strait, correspondingly. The island is a part of the autonomous district of Nenetsia of the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. This article is about the geomorphological/geopolitical term; Mainland is also a brand from Fonterra. ... Novaya Zemlyas position on the map The archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (Russian: Но́вая Земля́, New Land; formerly known as Nova Zembla) consists of two major islands in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, and a number of smaller ones. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Autonomous Districts of Russia ... Arkhangelsk Oblast (Арха́нгельская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. ...

  • Area: 3383 sq km
  • Length: approx. 100 km
  • Width: up to 45 km
  • Average temperatures: -20°С (February), +5°С (June)
  • Highest point: 170 m

The Vaygach Island is mainly formed with argillaceous slates, sandstone, and limestone. There are many rivers (20-40 km in length), swamps, and small lakes on the island. It is covered with tundra vegetation. The settlements of Vaygach, Dolgaya Guba and Varnek are located on the island. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre/Kilometer (only km in minuscule is the correct representation of kilometer as an SI unit of length) Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management, in the field of Library and information science Knowledge Machine, the KM knowledge representation... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... A freshwater swamp swamp (disambiguation) A swamp is a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry-land protrusions. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ... In physical geography, tundra is an area where tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ...


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Russian Arctic - Vaygach Island (179 words)
Vaygach (Вайгач) lies in the Barents Sea region of the Russian Arctic, lying a few kilometers across the Yugorsky Shar Strait from the coast of northwestern Russia, and northeast from the mouth of the Pechora River (sediment plumes from the Pechora River are just visible at the bottom-left corner of the above image).
Vaygach measures around 100 km in length with a width of up to 45 km and covers an area of 3,398 km²;.
Vaygach is a continuation of the Pay-Khoy mountain range (bottom-right of the image), and on a larger scale is part of the Ural Mountain belt that runs from the southern Russia up through to Novaya Zemlya in the far north.
Vaygach at AllExperts (173 words)
Vaygach Island (Ð'айгач in Russian) is an island in the Arctic Sea on the border of the Barents Sea and Kara Sea.
The Vaygach Island is separated from the mainland and Novaya Zemlya by the Yugorsky Shar Strait and Kara Gate Strait, correspondingly.
The Vaygach Island is mainly formed with argillaceous slates, sandstone, and limestone.
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