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Rudolf Island is almost completely glaciated. It is located very close to the limit of permanent Polar ice. Its highest point is 461 m (1,512 ft). The Middendorff Glacier (Lednik Middendorfa) covers the southeastern part of the island. [4] Cape Fligely, located on Rudolf Island's northern shore, is the northernmost point of Europe and Russia.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of the extreme points of the Arctic, ... Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, ...
The northernmost and easternmost points of Russia coincide with those of Eurasia (both for the mainland and including the islands). The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan, and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan, at 7,495 ...
Cape Fligely (Russian: Мыс Флигели; Mys Fligeli) is located on the northern shores of Rudolf Island and Franz Josef Land in the Russian Federation, [1] [2] and is the northernmost point of Russia, Europe, and Eurasia as a whole. It is 911 kilometres (566 mi) south from the North Pole.
Rudolf Island. Cape Fligely on Rudolf Island at 81°52' N is the northernmost point of Franz Josef Land. [13] Lieutenant Julius von Payer, an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, cartographer, and mountaineer, planted an Austro-Hungarian flag at Cape Fligely during the 1874 expedition that discovered Franz Josef Land.
The first drifting ice station was set up out of Rudolf Island in 1936. [34] An airstrip was then constructed on a glacier on the island, and by 1937 the winter population hit 300. [35] Activity dwindled during the Second World War and only a small group of men were kept at Rudolf Island, remaining unsupplied throughout the war. [36]
After Rudolph’s initial success, Rankin/Bass made sequels to his story, including Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, where Santa tasks Rudolph with finding the Baby New Year before time is frozen ...
Upon granting of the Ionian Islands to Greece in 1864 the extreme points of the country were modified as follows: North & West: Sazan Island (Sason, Saso) (40°30′N 19°17′E) at the entrance of the Bay of Vlorë (Aulon, Avlona) South: Antikythera (35°52′N 23°18′E)