🚤 Vilkitsky Strait

Russia · Other · 77.96°N, 103.45°E

Vilkitsky Strait is a strait between the Taimyr Peninsula and Bolshevik Island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago of Russia. The strait connects the Kara and Laptev Seas. The length of the Vilkitsky Strait is 128 km, the width approx. 55 km and the depth between 32 m and 210 m. It is covered with drifting ice all year round. The strait was discovered in 1913 by a Russian hydrographic expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky and then named after him in 1918.

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Quick facts

Country	Russia
Continent / region	Other
Coordinates (approx.)	77.96°N, 103.45°E · view on map

Vilkitsky Strait is located in Russia, in Other.

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