Taymyr Island () is a large island in the coast of the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all ...

. Its length is and its average width about . This island is located west of the Taymyr Gulf in an area of

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right off the western coast of the

Taymyr Peninsula The Taymyr Peninsula ( ) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia. Administratively it is part of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Federal subject of Russia. Ge ...

. The narrow strait between Taymyr island and the Siberian coast is called Proliv Taymyrskiy It is about wide on average.

Geography

Taymyr Island is one of the islands of the coastal area of the

Nordenskiöld Archipelago The Nordenskiöld Archipelago or Nordenskjold Archipelago () is a large and complex cluster of about 90 islands in the eastern region of the Kara Sea. Its eastern limit lies west of the Taymyr Peninsula. The archipelago is part of the Taymyrsk ...

. The shores of Taymyr Island and some of its larger neighboring islands, such as Nansena, Bonevi and Pilota Makhotkina, are deeply indented, with many crooked inlets. The sounds between this island and neighboring islands are also somewhat labyrinthic. Geologically all these coastal islands are a continuation of the

which lies further north. Hovgaard Island, the closest island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago lies northwest of the NW point of Taymyr Island across the Matisen Strait. The sea surrounding Taymyr Island is covered with

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with some polynias during the long and bitter winters and there are many

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s even in the

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. Taymyr Island belongs to the

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administrative division of

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and is part of the

Great Arctic State Nature Reserve The Great Arctic State Nature Reserve () is a nature reserve in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. With an area of , it is the largest reserve of Russia and Eurasia, as well as one of the largest in the world. History The Great Arctic State Nature Reserv ...

– the largest nature reserve of Russia and one of the biggest in the world.

History

In October 1900, during Baron Eduard von Toll’s last expedition, winter quarters for ship '' Zarya'' were set at Nablyudeniy Island and a scientific station was built there. This is a small granite island southwest of Taymyr Island, located in a bay that Baron Toll named Bukhta Kolin Archera ( Colin Archer Bay), after the shipyard where '' Zarya'' had been built.

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, ''Baron Eduard von Toll’s Last Expedition, 1900-1903.'' In some maps Taymyr Island is named simply as Taymyra.

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Nansen's explorations
{{KrasnoyarskKrai-geo-stub Islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago Islands of Krasnoyarsk Krai

Geography

History

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