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Vaygach Island

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Vaygach Island

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Also known as Vaigatz

island

Key facts

Location
Arctic Sea
Area
3,383 km (1,306 sq mi)
Length
100 km (60 mi)
Width
45 km (28 mi)
Highest elevation
170 m (560 ft)
Highest point
Gora Bolvanskaya
Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Okrug
Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Population
106 (2012)
Pop density
0,03/km (8/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
Nenets, Russians

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
island
Population
100
Area
3329
Elevation
157
Time zone
UTC+04:00
Body of water
Kara Sea
Image
Vaygach island sentinel-2.jpg
Width
45
Length
100
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Vaygach
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Encyclopedic overview

Vaygach Island (Russian: Вайга́ч, romanized: Vajgač) is an island in the Arctic Sea between the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea.

Geography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vaygach Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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