The Anzhu Islands or Anjou Islands (Russian: Oстрова Анжу , romanized : Ostrova Anzhu ; Yakut : Анжу арыыларa , romanized: Anju arıılara ) are an archipelago and geographical subgroup of the New Siberian Islands archipelago. They are located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Arctic Ocean.
3-656: The Anzhu Islands are named after Russian explorer Pyotr Anjou , a Russian-born descendant of Protestant refugees from the French province of Anjou . The total area of the islands is approx. 29,000 km. This island group is a practically uninhabited territory. It belongs administratively to Yakutia , Russian Federation . The main islands of the Anzhu Islands archipelago are, from west to east: Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou Pyotr Fyodorovich Anjou ( Russian : Пётр Фёдорович Анжу ; 15 February 1796 – 12 October 1869)
6-564: The northern coast of Siberia in 1820. He and his assistants (P.Ilyin, I. Berezhnykh , and A. Figurin) described the coastline and the islands between the rivers Olenyok and Indigirka and made a map of the New Siberian Islands . In 1825–1826, Anjou participated in describing the northeastern coast of the Caspian Sea and the western coast of the Aral Sea . He distinguished himself in
9-584: Was an Arctic explorer and an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy . Anjou's grandfather was a French Huguenot who entered the service of Russia in the middle of the 18th century. His father became a Russian citizen and worked as a doctor. Anjou was born in Vyshny Volochyok , near Tver . He graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps . As a lieutenant , Anjou was given a task to describe
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