Rastorguyev Island (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rastorguyev Island or Rastorguyeva Island is the thirst largest island of the Kamennyye Islands. It is located in the Kara Sea close to the shores of the Taymyr Peninsula, about 30 km from the coast. Winters are long, cold and bitter, and the surrounding sea freezes solid about ten months every year. The whole area around Rastorguyev Island was explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard von Toll during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900-1903. This large island was named by him after Stepan Innokentyevich Rastorguyev, an Imperial Russian Cossack officer accompanying him.