Malygina Strait

Malygina Strait or Malygin Strait in Siberia, Russia is an 9 to 30km wide, approximately 60 km long[1] sound which is frozen most of the year. It separates Bely Island from the Yamal Peninsula in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast. The strait is named after explorer Stepan Malygin, who was the first to make an instrumental mapping of its coasts during the Great Northern Expedition in the 18th century.

Malygina Strait is located in Russia
Malygina Strait
Malygina Strait (Russia)

References
  1. Zonn, Igor S.; Kostianoy, Andrey G.; Semenov, Aleksandr V., eds. (2017), "Malygina Strait", The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 234–234, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_130011, ISBN 978-3-319-25582-8, retrieved 4 June 2021

72.96°N 69.98°E / 72.96; 69.98


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