Bennett Island
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Bennett Island is the largest of the De Long Islands in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea in North Asia. The area of this island is approximately 150 square kilometres and it has a tombolo at
drawing of Bennett Island, discovered north of Siberia by the Jeannette Expedition, July 1881
A headland on Bennett Island
View of Bennett Island with its ice cap
De Long Islands
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The De Long Islands are an uninhabited archipelago often included as part of the New Siberian Islands, lying north east of Novaya Sibir.
Bennett Island
…Bennett Island (Russian: Остров Бе́ннетта, romanized: Ostrov Bennetta; Yakut: Беннетт Aрыыта, romanized: Bennett Arııta) is the largest of the De Long Islands in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea in North Asia. The area of this island is approximately 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) and it…
George W. DeLong
The eastern end of Bennett Island with its glaciated tombolo in the background
The dark coastal cliffs of Henrietta Island
1881 drawing of Jeannette Island