Native name: остров Колчака | |
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Geography | |
Location | Kara Sea |
Length | 21 km (13 mi) |
Width | 6.5 km (4.04 mi) |
Administration | |
Russia | |
Krai | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Kolchak Island or Kolchaka Island (Russian: остров Колчака, ostrov Kolchaka), is an island in the Kara Sea located in a coastal area of skerries northeast of the Shturmanov Peninsula. It is near the southern end of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, but not geographically part of it.
It was known as Rastorguyev Island (Russian: остров Расторгуева, ostrov Rastorguyeva) in the period between 1937 and 2005 .