{{Short description|Island in Russia}} {{for|other islands and geographic features called "Vilkitsky"|Vilkitsky (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox islands | name = Vilkitsky Island |image_name= Vilkitskogo.PNG |image_caption=Map of Vilkitsky and Neupokoyeva Islands | map_image = Kara seaVL.PNG | map_caption= Location of Vilkitsky and Neupokoyeva Islands in the Kara Sea | native_name = о́стров Вильки́цкого | native_name_link = Russian language | nickname = | location = Kara Sea | coordinates ={{coord|73|28|N|75|45|E|type:isle|display=inline,title}} | archipelago = | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 153.9 | length_km =42 | width_km =12 | highest_mount = | elevation_m = 5 | country = Russia | country_admin_divisions_title = Oblast | country_admin_divisions = Tyumen Oblast | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = Okrug | country_admin_divisions_1 = Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | population = uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }} '''Vilkitsky Island''', (Russian: Остров Вильки́цкого; '''Ostrov Vil'kitskogo''') is an island in the Kara Sea. It is located 40 km northeast of Shokalsky Island, off the tip of the Gyda Peninsula in North Siberia.
This island is not to be confused with other islands called "Vilkitsky", such as the small Vilkitsky group (now mentioned as Dzhekman Islands in most maps) which is part of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, the Vilkitsky Islands located in the Laptev Sea off the eastern shores of the Taymyr Peninsula, and also Vilkitsky Island in the De Long Group in the East Siberian Sea.
==Geography== Vilkitsky Island is bleak and windswept and is covered with tundra. The island is crescent-shaped and it is divided in two by a narrow sound in its midst. It is 42 km in length but only 12 km wide at its broadest zone.
The sea surrounding this island is covered with pack ice in the winter and there are numerous ice floes even in the summer. There is a large shallow area between Vilkitsky Island and its southern neighbor, Neupokoyev Island (Остров Неупокоева),<ref>[http://www.npolar.no/transeff/transport/Ice/AARI_chapter1.pdf Fast ice conditions] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708005649/http://www.npolar.no/transeff/transport/Ice/AARI_chapter1.pdf |date=July 8, 2007 }}</ref> named after Konstantin Neupokoev (1884—1924), a naval officer, hydrographer and explorer of the Russian Hydrographic Service in Soviet times.<ref name=Siniukov>''Синюков, В. В.'' Александр Васильевич Колчак : Учёный и патриот : в 2 ч. / В. В. Синюков; отв. ред. А. П. Лисицын; Ин-т истории естествознания и техники им. С. И. Вавилова РАН. — М.: Наука, 2009. — {{ISBN|978-5-02-035761-7}} (ч. 2), С. 34</ref>
Vilkitsky Island belongs to the Tyumen Oblast administrative division of the Russian Federation. It is also part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.<ref>[http://www.bigarctic.ru/Eng Nature Reserve] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008044746/http://www.bigarctic.ru/Eng |date=October 8, 2007 }}</ref>
This island is named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky's father Andrey Vilkitsky,<ref>[http://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_we/vilkicky_ai.html Вилькицкий Андрей Ипполитович]</ref> while the Vilkitsky Islands in the Laptev sea are named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky himself.
==See also== *Kara Sea
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.npolar.no/transeff/transport/Ice/aari_all.pdf Contamination in the Kara Sea] {{Kara Sea Islands}}
Category:Islands of the Kara Sea Category:Islands of Tyumen Oblast
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