Durneva Island

Durneva Island or Dūrnev Araldary (Russian: Остров Дурнева) is a coastal island near the entrance of the Dead Kultuk (former Komsomolets Bay) of the eastern Caspian Sea.^[1] It is located north of the Buzachi Peninsula and 41.6 km north of Turum.^[2]

Administratively, Durneva Island belongs to the Mangystau Region of Kazakhstan.

Cartography

Durneva is probably the island which appears in early maps of the Caspian Sea as Ile des Cygnes (Swan Island). The island was first accurately mapped only by Fedor Ivanovich Soimonov during the 1719 Caspian Expedition, which surveyed the Caspian Sea from 1719 to 1727.^[3]

References

↑Geographic data
↑"Turum information and distances". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
↑Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

External links

Caspian Sea Biodiversity Project

[1] Geographic data

[2] "Turum information and distances". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2008-06-25.

[3] Igor S. Zonn, Aleksey N Kosarev, Michael H. Glantz & Andrey G. Kostianoy, The Caspian Sea Encyclopedia

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