Nordenskiöld Archipelago
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Nordenskiöld Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг Норденшельда) is a group of islands in the southeastern part of the Kara Sea (close to Taimyr Peninsula, Russia), stretching 93 km from west to east. The archipelago consists of 90 islands, which form several groups: Vilkitsky Islands (острова Вилькицкого), Tsivolko Islands (острова Циволько), Pakhtusov Islands (острова Пахтусова), Litke Islands (острова Литке), and Eastern Islands (Восточные острова). The most northern and one of the largest islands of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago is the Russian Island (остров Русский). The islands are mainly formed with igneous rocks and covered with tundra vegetation.
In 1893, a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen named the archipelago after an arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. The archipelago was mostly explored in the 1930s by the Soviet expeditions on the ships Sedov and Toros.
