Bruce Island (Franz Josef Land) Explained
Bruce Island (Russian: text=Остров Брюса|translit=Ostrov Brjusa|italic=yes) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Its area is 191km². The highest point of the island is 301m (988feet).[1]
This island was named after Henry Bruce, who succeeded the Earl of Northbrook as President of the Royal Geographical Society.[2]
Geography
Except for a very small area at the western shoreline, Bruce Island is completely glacierized. Mys Pinegina is the headland on the eastern side.
The Miers Channel (Пролив Майерса) runs between Bruce Island and Northbrook Island. The sound running west of Bruce Island, separating it from Zemlya Georga, is known as the Nightingale Channel (Proliv Naytingeyl). To the southwest runs Bates Channel (Пролив Бейтса).[3]
Adjacent Islands
- Ostrov Meybel (Остров Мейбел; Mabel Island) lies 4km (02miles) off Bruce Island's southwestern shore. Large swathes of the southwestern part of the island are unglacierized. The highest point is 365m (1,198feet). This island was named by Benjamin Leigh Smith after his niece Amable Ludlow (1860–1939).[4]
- Ostrov Bell (Остров Белл; Bell Island) is a smaller non glacierized island lying off Mabel Island's southwestern shore, separated from it by a narrow sound which is only 500m (1,600feet) in some places. Bell island is crescent shaped and it has a bay that opens to the west. Benjamin Leigh Smith named it thus because it looks like a bell. Bell was also the nickname of his sister Isabella.[2]
- Ostrov Uinduord (Остров Уиндуорд; Windward Island) is a small island lying close to Bruce Island's southeastern end. It was named by Frederick George Jackson, after his expedition's ship.[5]
- Ostrov Toma (Остров тома; Tom Island) is a very small island lying 3km (02miles) off Bruce Island's Eastern coast.
Notes and References
- Web site: UNEP - Islands . 2007-07-31 . 2013-11-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131125062100/http://islands.unep.ch/CEO.htm . dead .
- Capelotti . Peter Joseph . Forsberg . Magnus . The place names of Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa: Leigh Smith’s Eira expeditions, 1880 and 1881–1882 . Polar Record . 2015 . 51 . 256 . 16–23 . 10.1017/S0032247413000429. p. 18
- Циглер . Topographical Map U-39-XXXI,XXXII,XXXIII . 1965 . 1 : 200 000 . 10 January 2021.
- Book: 2013 . Peter Joseph Capelotti . Shipwreck at Cape Flora. The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer . Calgary, Canada . University of Calgary Press . 978-1-55238-705-4 . 162 . 7 July 2017 . 19 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160719191814/http://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/49458/1/UofCPress_Shipwreck_2013_.pdf . dead .
- Montefiore . Arthur . The Jackson-Harmsworth North Polar Expedition: An Account of Its First Winter and of Some Discoveries in Franz Josef Land . The Geographical Journal . December 1895 . 6 . 6 . 499–519 . 10.2307/1774008 . 5 January 2021 . p. 506
