Champ Island

Island in Franz Josef Land, Russia

80°40′26″N 56°14′13″E / 80.6739°N 56.2369°E / 80.6739; 56.2369ArchipelagoZichy Land
Franz Josef ArchipelagoArea374 km² (144 sq mi)Highest elevation507 m (1663 ft)Administration

Russia

DemographicsPopulation0

Champ Island (Russian: Остров Чамп; Ostrov Champ) The highest point of the island is 507 meters above sea level. The area is 374 km². It is the southernmost island of the Zichy group of islands. Administratively located in the Primorsky district of Franz Josef Land, Russia.

History

This island was named after William S. Champ,^[1]^[2]^[3] who was the representative of the late William Ziegler and leader of the relief operation searching for Anthony Fiala of the Fiala-Ziegler Polar Expedition.^[4]

A piece of a century-year-old ski was found in Champ Island, at Cape Trieste (Mys Triest) in August 2006.^[5]

Geography

Champ Island has a surface of 374 km² (144 sq mi) and a shoreline of 90.6 km (297,244 ft). There is a wide unglacierized zone in the southwest of the island. The highest point of the island is 507 m (1,663 ft).^[6]

Champ Island is the southernmost island of the Zichy Land subgroup of the Franz Joseph Archipelago. It is separated by narrow sounds from Luigi Island in the north and Salisbury Island in the northeast.^{[citation needed]}

The broad channel in the west of Champ Island is known as Markham Sound (Пролив маркама; Proliv Markama), after British polar explorer Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham.^{[citation needed]}

The island is known by its concretions, stone spheres with dimensions from millimetres to several meters.^[7]

References

^ NY Times - May, 14 1904
^ NY Times - May, 5 1904
^ The Papers of M. Frederick Mount in the Dartmouth College Library
^ Anthony Fiala: Fighting the Polar Ice. Doubleday, Page & co., New York 1907, p. 193
^ Ski fragment
^ "UNEP - Islands". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ Friedhelm Thiedig: Fahrt zum Geografischen Nordpol und zum Franz Josef Land (2005) – mit Beschreibung der Klagenfurt Inseln und der auffällig großen Steinkugeln östlich Kap Fiume auf Champ Island (FJL) (PDF; 11,2 MB). In: Carinthia II 196/116(1), 2006, pp. 9–32

External links

Media related to Champ Island at Wikimedia Commons
High Arctic mosses & plants on Champ Island High Arctic mosses & plants on Champ Island
Names in Russian