Barsa-Kelmes

thumb|300px|Detail of 1853 map of the Aral Sea (from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 23, 1853, to accompany "Survey of the Sea of Aral by Commander A. Butakoff, Imperial Russian Navy, 1848 & 1849") thumb|300px|Taras Shevchenko: Tent of the expedition on the island of Barsa-Kelmes, 1848

Barsa-Kelmes (, , Barsakelmes meaning "the place of no return") was an island, the largest in the Aral Sea. Its area was 133 km2 in the 1980s, but as the sea became more shallow it steadily grew, until in the 1990s it ceased to be an island. Its highest altitude was 113 m.