Bruce Island

This article is about an island in the Russian Arctic. For the island in the Canadian Arctic, see Bruce Island (Nunavut).

Coordinates: 80°03′N 50°00′E / 80.050°N 50.000°E / 80.050; 50.000

Location of the Franz Josef Archipelago

Bruce Island (Russian: Остров Брюса; Ostrov Brjusa) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Its area is 191 square kilometres (74 sq mi). The highest point of the island is 301 metres (988 ft).

Except for a very small area at the western shoreline, Bruce Island is completely glacierized. Mys Pinegina is a cape on the eastern side.

This island was named after Henry Bruce, who succeeded the Earl of Northbrook as President of the Royal Geographical Society.

The Mieres Channel (Пролив Майерса) runs between Bruce Island and Northbrook Island.

The sound running west of Bruce Island, separating it from Zemlya Georga, is known as the Nightingale Channel (Proliv Naytingeyl).

Adjacent Islands

Ostrov Meybel (Остров Мейбел; Mabel Island) lies 4 km (2 mi) off Bruce Island's southwestern shore. Large swathes of the southwestern part of the island are unglacierized. The highest point is 365 m (1,198 ft). This island was named after Alexander Graham Bell's wife Mabel Hubbard.
Ostrov Bell (Остров Белл; Bell Island) is a smaller non glacierized island lying off Mabel Island's southwestern shore, separated from it by a narrow sound which is only 500 m (1,640 ft) in some places. Bell island is crescent shaped and it has a bay that opens to the west. Benjamin Leigh Smith call her because she look like a bell.
Ostrov Uinduord (Остров Уиндуорд; Windward Island) is a small island lying close to Bruce Island's southeastern end.
Ostrov Toma (Остров тома; Tom Island) is a very small island lying 3 km (1.9 mi) off Bruce Island's Eastern coast.

References

All locations:
List of islands and islets (in Russian language)

Franz Josef Land

Islands	Aagaard Island Adelaide Island Alexander Islands Alexandra Land Alger Island Arthur Island Becker Island Belaya Zemlya Bell Island Berghaus Island Bliss Island Brice Island Brosch Island Bruce Island Bromwich Island Brady Island Champ Island Chichagov Islands Coburg Island David Island Davis Island Derevyannyy Island Eaton Island Elizabeth Island Etheridge Islands Eva-Liv Island Freeden Island Geddes Island George Land Gogenloe Island Gorbunov Islands Graham Bell Island Greely Island Hall Island Harley Island Heiss Island Hochstetter Islands Hofmann Island Hooker Island Howen Island Jackson Island Jefferson Island Karl-Alexander Island Koetlitz Island Kane Island Klagenfurt Island Koldewey Island Komsomol Islands Kuchin Islands Kuna Island Lamont Island La Ronciere Island Levanevsky Island Leigh-Smith Island Litke Island Luigi Island McClintock Island McNult Island Mabel Island May Island Nansen Island (Franz Josef Land) Newcomb Island Newton Island Northbrook Island Ostrovov Oktyabryata Ommanney Island Payer Island Pontremoli Islands Pritchet Island Pyerlamutrov Island Querini Island Rainer Island Robertson Island Royal Society Island Rudolf Island Salisbury Island (Russia) Salm Island Schoenau Island Scott-Keltie Island Stoliczka Island Tillo Island Torup Island Ugol'noy Kopi Wiener Neustadt Island Wilczek Island Wilczek Land Wilton Island Windward Island Zichy Land Ziegler Island

History	Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition Nansen's Fram expedition Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition Jason Ziegler Polar Expedition Yermak Bratvaag Expedition Malygin

Outposts	Ernst Krenkel Observatory Nagurskoye

Geography	Austrian Strait Cape Bystrova Cape Fligely Cape Kohlsaat Cape Mary Harmsworth Queen Victoria Sea Russian Arctic National Park

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