Salm Island

Location of Salm Island and its neighboring islands in the Franz Josef Archipelago

Salm Island (Russian: 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 17 km (11 mi) and its area is 344 km² (133 sq mi). 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 6.5 km (4 mi) long by 4 km (2 mi) 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 3.7 km (2 mi) 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 10 km (6 mi) 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 3 km (2 mi) wide sound. This island is named after Austro Hungarian nobleman Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek.
4 km (2 mi) southeast of Salm Island lies small and round Litke Island (oстров Литке). Its area is 14 km² (5 sq mi) and it was named after Russian Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke.

References

All locations: &
Complete island list in Russian: ru:Список островов России
Salm: Genealogy and princely family branches & Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten
Captain Karl Koldewey:

Franz Josef Land

Islands	Aagaard Island Adelaide Island Alexander Islands Alexandra Land Alger Island Arthur Island Becker Island Belaya Zemlya Bell Island Berghaus Island Bliss Island Brice Island Brosch Island Bruce Island Bromwich Island Brady Island Champ Island Chichagov Islands Coburg Island David Island Davis Island Derevyannyy Island Eaton Island Elizabeth Island Etheridge Islands Eva Island Freeden Island Geddes Island George Land Gogenloe Island Gorbunov Islands Graham Bell Island Greely Island Hall Island Harley Island Heiss Island Hochstetter Islands Hofmann Island Hooker Island Howen Island Jackson Island Jefferson Island Karl-Alexander Island Koetlitz Island Kane Island Klagenfurt Island Koldewey Island Komsomol Islands Kuchin Islands Kuna Island Lamont Island La Ronciere Island Levanevsky Island Leigh-Smith Island Litke Island Luigi Island McClintock Island McNult Island Mabel Island May Island Nansena Island Newcomb Island Newton Island Northbrook Island Ostrovov Oktyabryata Ommanney Island Payer Island Pontremoli Islands Pritchet Island Pyerlamutrov Island Querini Island Rainer Island Robertson Island Royal Society Island Rudolf Island Salisbury Island (Russia) Salm Island Schönau Island Scott-Keltie Island Stoliczka Island Tillo Island Torup Island Ugol'noy Kopi Wiener Neustadt Island Wilczek Island Wilczek Land Wilton Island Windward Island Zichy Land Ziegler Island

History	Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition Nansen's Fram expedition Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition Jason Ziegler Polar Expedition Yermak Bratvaag Expedition Malygin

Outposts	Ernst Krenkel Observatory Nagurskoye

Geography	Austrian Strait Cape Bystrova Cape Fligely Cape Kohlsaat Cape Mary Harmsworth Russian Arctic National Park

Coordinates: 80°04′N 59°16′E / 80.067°N 59.267°E / 80.067; 59.267

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