Английская Википедия:Alger Island, Russia

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Infobox islands Alger Island (Russian: Остров Алджер; Ostrov Aldzher) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Lat 80° 22′ N, long 56° 03′ E.

Geography

The length of Alger Island is Шаблон:Convert and its maximum width Шаблон:Convert. Its highest point is the Шаблон:Convert high summit of the Kupol Vostok Pervyy (Купол Восток Первый) ice dome that covers part of the island.[1] There are wide unglaciated areas on the northern and the southwestern shores.

Alger Island is located north of McClintock Island, separated from it by a Шаблон:Convert narrow sound.

Off Alger Island's southwestern shores lies Ostrov Matil'dy (Остров Матильды), a very small, barely Шаблон:Convert long, island.

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History

The island was discovered in 1899 by Walter Wellman on board the Capella. He named it after U.S. Secretary of War Russell A. Alger who had donated $ 250 to Wellman's expedition.[2]

The wintering site of the 1901 failed American Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition was on Alger Island.[3]

See also

References

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External links

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