Makar Island (Остров Макар) is an island in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russian Federation . It is part of the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea .
4-609: There is a Russian Polar station on the island. In 1985 bison bones from the Pleistocene were collected by Yu. A. Yarlykov on Makar Island. Makar Island is located off the NW end of Sellyakh Bay , about 30 km (19 mi) from the mouths of the Chondon to the south, and 21 km (13 mi) north of the Shelonsky Islands . The island is flat and marshy. It has some small lakes and
8-612: A landspit pointing towards the east. Its length is 11 km (6.8 mi) and its maximum breadth 6 km (3.7 mi). This island, like Muostakh Island further west in the Buor-Khaya Gulf , is subject to heavy erosion. The Yana Bay area is subject to severe Arctic weather with frequent gales and blizzards. The sea in the bay is frozen with thick ice for about eight months every year. 71°51′58″N 138°30′00″E / 71.866°N 138.500°E / 71.866; 138.500 This Sakha Republic location article
12-458: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Polar station A number of governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic . Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed across the northern polar region of Earth. Historically few research stations have been permanent. Most of them were temporary, being abandoned after
16-406: The completion of the project or owing to lack of funding to continue the research. Some of these were military or listening posts created as a result of the proximity of the U.S. and Soviet Union to each other's landmass across the polar region. Ice stations are constructed on land or on ice that rests on land, while others are drifting ice stations built on the sea ice of the high latitudes of
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