The territory of the Sibiryakov Island located in the southern part of the Kara Sea, on the border between Western and Eastern Siberia can be seen at the archive image received on September 24, 2013 from SPOT 6 satellite.

The island was named in honor of the Russian businessman and Siberian explorer Alexander Mikhailovich Sibiryakov.

Sibiryakov Island is separated from the Taimyr Peninsula by the Yenisei Bay. The relief of the island is a low, slightly hilly, sometimes swampy plain, covered with arctic tundra. The island and its coastal waters are part of the Great Arctic Reserve. There is no permanent population on the island.

In 1959, an expedition of Soviet scientists under the leadership of Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev worked on the Sibiryakov Island, carrying out experiments on the explosive removal of ice jams that delayed navigation on the northern rivers.

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