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The highest point of Graham Bell Island, 509 m (1,670 ft), is the summit of Kupol Vetrenyy (Купол Ветреный) "Windy Dome", a large ice dome covering the western part of the island. [ 1 ] This island was named after inventor Alexander Graham Bell . [ 2 ]
Scott-Keltie Island, with a highest point of 64 metres (210 ft), is an island off the northwest coast, and is named in honor of Scottish geographer Sir John Scott Keltie (1840–1927). 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) beyond this, lying to the west of Scott-Keltie Island in the British Channel, is Eaton Island, a small, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long island.
Graham Bell Island is separated from the eastern group by the Severo–Vostochnyi Strait. [56] There are two named island clusters: Zichy Land north of Markham Sound; and Belaya Zemlya to the extreme northeast. [citation needed] The straits are narrow, between several hundred meters to 3 kilometers (2 mi) wide. They reach depths of 500 to 600 ...
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Bell Island (Russian: Остров Белл) is a small island in the south-west of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The island was named by English explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith for its bell-shaped mountain, rising steeply from the island's southern coast with the Barents Sea .
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Detailed map of Bell Island. Bell Island is 9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) long and on average 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide, which gives it a slightly elongated shape along the southwest–northeast axis. [10] It is located in the eastern part of Conception Bay, 38 kilometres (24 mi) off the coast of the eastern section of the Avalon Peninsula. [31]