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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 ]
English: Map of Graham Bell Island and Wilczek Land in Franz Josef Land of Russia. Date: 18 July 2013, 07:58:18: Source: File:Map of Franz Josef Land-en.svg cropped ...
The largest island is Prince George Land, which measures 2,741 square kilometers (1,058 sq mi), followed by Wilczek Land, Graham Bell Island and Alexandra Land. Approximately 85% of the archipelago is glaciated, with large unglaciated areas on the largest islands and many of the smallest ones. The islands have a combined coastline of 4,425 ...
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.
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Graham Bell Island, (Остров Греэм-Белл, Ostrov Graham Bell), about 1,557 km 2 (601 sq mi) Alexandra Land (Земля Александры, Zemlya Aleksandry), about 1,130 km 2 (440 sq mi) Hall Island (Arctic) (Остров Галля, Ostrov Gallya), about 1,049 km 2 (405 sq mi)
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 .
This is a list of islands of Russia.It includes all islands in Russia with an area greater than 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and some of the more significant minor islands.