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Key facts
- Location
- Arctic
- Archipelago
- Severnaya Zemlya
- Area
- 11,270 km (4,350 sq mi)
- Area rank
- 66th
- Highest elevation
- 935 m (3068 ft)
- Highest point
- unnamed
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Severnaya Zemlya
- Named after
- Bolsheviks
- Located in
- Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District
- Continent
- Asia
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 11206
- Elevation
- 935
- Time zone
- UTC+04:00
- Body of water
- Laptev Sea
- Location
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Bolshevik Island 2020-08-15 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color.jpg
- Width
- 79
- Length
- 149
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- Commons category
- Bolshevik Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Severnaya Zemlya
- time of discovery or invention
- 1913-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Bolshevik Island (Russian: о́стров Большеви́к, pronounced [ˈostrəf bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik]) is an island in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Arctic. The island is named after the political faction of the Soviet Union.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bolshevik Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.