Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea)
Vilkitsky Island is the southernmost island of the De Long group in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea. Administratively Vilkitsky Island belongs to Yakutia, an administrative division of the Russian Federation.
The island is named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky.Geography
The island is outside of the limits of permanent ice and is unglaciated. At barely Vilkitsky is the smallest island of the group. The highest elevation is above sea level.
Vilkitsky Island consists of deeply eroded nepheline basalt lava flowsHistory
Vilkitsky Island was discovered in 1913 during the Imperial Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky on the ships Taymyr and Vaygach on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service in order to chart the last blank areas of Russian maps.
