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Salm Island ((ロシア語:oстров Сальм; ''Ostrov Sal'm'')) is a roughly round-shaped island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Salm Island is almost completely glaciarized except for a cape in its southern shore. Its maximum length is and its area is . The highest point of the island, Chernysheva Ice Cap, is 343 m. Salm Island was named by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition after the Salm-Hoogstraeten aristocratic dynasty to which Count Karl Alexander, one of the expedition's main sponsors, belonged. The Salm-Hoogstraeten dynasty should not be confused with the Hochstetter dynasty. This island is surrounded by smaller islands. ==Adjacent small islands== *Ostrova Bisernyye are two small islets located right off Salm Island's southern shore. * A few miles to the northeast lie the Hochstetter Islands (oстрова Гохштеттера or oстрова Хохштеттера), made up of a long by wide island, Hochstetter Island (also known as Gogstettera Yuzhnyy), 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. * Roughly north lies long Koldewey Island (oстров Kольдевея), named after Captain Carl Koldewey leader of the second German expedition to the Arctic in 1869-70. Highest point 66 m. *Off Koldewey Island's northern point there is a small islet called Schoenau Island (oстров Шёнау). This island was named after Teplitz-Schönau (now Teplice, Czech Republic), 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. * Southwest of Salm Island lies long Wilczek Island (oстров Вильчека) (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. * southeast of Salm Island lies small and round Litke Island (oстров Литке). Its area is and it was named after Russian Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salm Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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