Yuny Strait (Russian: Юный пролив) is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is covered with ice most of the year.

History

Initially named Proliv Yungshturm (Russian: пролив Юнгштурм) after the Roter Jungsturm of the German Communist Youth, following the Great Patriotic War, its name was changed to Yuny (Youth).[1][2][3][4]

Geography

The Yuny Strait is a maximum 24 km (15 mi)-wide strait that separates Pioneer Island from Komsomolets Island, connecting the Kara Sea in the northwest with the Red Army Strait in the southeast.[5] It runs roughly in a northwest/southeast direction and its confluence with the Red Army Strait is located 23 km (14 mi) to the southwest of Cape October. The minimum width of Yuny Strait is 4 km (2.5 mi).[6]

1975 map showing Severnaya Zemlya and the Taymyr Peninsula

References

  1. ^ Архипелаг, открытый последним (Северная Земля)
  2. ^ Исследование Северной Земли
  3. ^ Плавание на ледоколе «Садко» 1935 г.
  4. ^ Ушаков Г. А. По нехоженной земле
  5. ^ "Proliv Yunyy". Mapcarta. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  6. ^ GoogleEarth


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuny_Strait
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