The Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (; ) are an

archipelago An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the o ...

and geographical subgroup of the

New Siberian Islands The New Siberian Islands (; ) are an archipelago in the Extreme North of Russia, to the north of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, of whose Bulunsky District they ar ...

archipelago. They are located between the

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and the

East Siberian Sea The East Siberian Sea (; ) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka, ...

in the Arctic Ocean.

Etymology

The Anzhu Islands are named after Russian explorer Pyotr Anjou, a Russian-born descendant of

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refugees from the French province of

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Geography

The total area of the islands is approx. 29,000 km². This island group is a practically uninhabited territory. It belongs administratively to

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Main islands

The main islands of the Anzhu Islands archipelago are, from west to east: *

Belkovsky Island Belkovsky Island (; ) is the westernmost island of the Anzhu Islands subgroup of the New Siberian Islands archipelago in the Laptev Sea. Location The strait between Belkovsky Island and neighboring Kotelny Island is known as the Zarya Strait, afte ...

. *

Kotelny Island Kotelny Island (; ) is part of the Anzhu Islands subgroup of the New Siberian Islands located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Russian Arctic. It is administratively and municipally part of Bulunsky District of the Republ ...

Bunge Land Bunge Land or Zemlya Bunge is a huge, empty, and almost barren intermediate zone in the Anzhu Islands north of Siberia. It is located between Kotelny and Faddeyevsky, which, unlike Bunge Land, could be described as proper islands. Sandy and fla ...

Faddeyevsky Peninsula Faddeyevsky, also known as Faddeyevsky Island (), is a large peninsula in the New Siberian Islands, Sakha Republic, Russia. This geographic feature was named after a fur trader called Faddeyev who built the first settlement there. Geography It w ...

New Siberia New Siberia or Novaya Sibir (; , , ; ) is the easternmost of the Anzhu Islands, the northern subgroup of the New Siberian Islands lying between the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. Its area of approximately places it the 102nd largest islan ...

References

Location of the Anzhu Islands

External links

* {{East Siberian Sea Islands Archipelagoes of the East Siberian Sea Archipelagoes of the Laptev Sea New Siberian Islands Archipelagoes of the Sakha Republic Islands of Siberia Uninhabited islands of Russia