Salm Island


Salm Island is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged.

Geography

Salm Island is almost completely glacierized except for two headlands in its western and its southern shore. The Chernyshev Ice Cap covers most of the island. Salm Island's maximum length is and its area is. The highest point of the island is 343 m high summit of the Chernyshev Ice Cap.

Adjacent smaller islands

Salm Island is surrounded by smaller islands. Ostrova Bisernyye are two small islets located right off Salm Island's southern shore.

Wilczek Island

Southwest of Salm Island lies long Wilczek Island —which should not be confused with Wilczek Land in the same archipelago. It is separated from Salm Island by a wide sound. This island is named after Austro-Hungarian nobleman Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek.

Lütke Island

southeast of Salm Island lies small and round Lütke Island. Its area is and it was named after Russian Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke.

Hochstetter Islands

A few miles to the northeast lie the Hochstetter Islands, made up of a long by wide island, Hochstetter Island, and two smaller islets Gogstettera Sredniy and ostrov Al'batros. The Hochstetter Islands are named after the German Hochstetter princely dynasty of the Austro Hungarian Empire.

Koldewey Island

Roughly north lies long Koldewey Island, named after Captain Carl Koldewey leader of the Second German Expedition to the Arctic in 1869–70. Highest point 66 m.

Schoenau Island

Off Koldewey Island's northern point there is a smaller island, Schoenau Island. This island was named after Teplitz-Schönau, the birthplace of Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer Julius Payer, who made a discovery of Franz Josef Land, when he led, as a Commander at Shore, the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition together with Karl Weyprecht, who was a Commander at sea.