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:''For other islands and geographic features called "Vilkitsky" see Vilkitsky (disambiguation).'' Vilkitsky Island ((ロシア語:Oстров Вильки́цкого); ''Ostrov Vilkitskogo'') is the southernmost island of the De Long group in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea. At barely 1.5 km sq it is the smallest island of the group. Highest elevetion is 70 meters.〔(Headland, R. K. (1994): OSTROVA DE-LONGA ('De Long Islands') )〕 It is also outside of the limits of permanent ice and is unglaciated. Vilkitsky Island consists of deeply eroded nepheline basalt lava flows〔Fujita, K., and D.B. Cook, 1990, ''The Arctic continental margin of eastern Siberia'', in A. Grantz, L. Johnson, and J. F. Sweeney, eds., pp. 289-304, The Arctic Ocean Region. Geology of North America, vol L, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.〕 Administratively Vilkitsky Island belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation.〔(Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) Land Feature Database )〕 This island should not be confused with Vilkitsky Island in the Kara Sea, with the Vilkitsky island group (now mentioned as Dzhekman Islands in most maps) which is part of the Nordenskjold Archipelago in the Kara Sea, or with the Vilkitsky Island located in the Laptev sea off the eastern shores of the Taymyr Peninsula. All these islands are named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky. ==History== Vilkitsky Island was discovered in 1913 during the Imperial Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky on the ships ''Taymyr'' and ''Vaygach''.〔Starokadomski, L.M. and O.M. Cattley, 1919, (Vilkitski's North-East Passage, 1914-15. ) The Geographical Journal. vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 367-375.〕 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「Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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