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and his ill-fated party disappeared somewhere around the area of the Mona
Islands. Relics were found in 1934 in Gerkules Island, including a wooden pole with the inscription "Gerkules 1913", broken old sledges and a fragment of a cartridge box. Other remainders were found in Popova Chukchina, an
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Germans knew that many ships of the USSR fleet had sought refuge in the Kara Sea because of the protection that its icy pack provided during ten months in a year. The large-scale naval operation in order to enter the Kara Sea and destroy as many Russian vessels as possible was named
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Memorial plaque commemorating
Vladimir Rusanov's expedition which was lost in this area of the Kara Sea. This plaque is located in Gerkules Island, which is named after Rusanov's ship.
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The sea surrounding the Mona
Islands is covered with pack ice in the winter, which is long and bitter. There are numerous ice floes even in the summer.
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Kravkov Island (Остров Кравкова) is one of the biggest islands, but it is still only about 3 km square. Named in 1933 after Soviet hydrographer
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Ringnes Island (Остров Рингнес) located at the western end of the group, was named after the
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882:Islands of the Kara Sea
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250:'s Arctic expeditions.
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556:Helland-Hansen Island
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30:Острова Мона
23:Mohn Islands
20:Mona Islands
831:Vize Island
811:Uyedineniya
781:Storozhevye
716:Plavnikovye
671:Neupokoyeva
661:Nablyudeniy
591:Komsomolets
506:Bera Island
501:Bely Island
316:During the
199:Henrik Mohn
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69:Coordinates
871:Categories
721:Proklyatye
586:Kolosovykh
405:References
369:warships.
352:submarines
139:Population
761:Shokalsky
541:Gavrilova
262:Geography
234:'s ship.
189:Etymology
159:‹See Tfd›
54:Geography
856:Zveroboy
836:Voronina
636:Markgama
394:Kara Sea
388:See also
171:Kara Sea
63:Kara Sea
59:Location
791:Taymyra
651:Moristy
309:of the
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281:History
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209:Islands
179:Siberia
163:Russian
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78:75°42′N
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626:Lishny
516:Bonevi
367:Soviet
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183:Russia
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362:U-251
356:U-601
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