Dmitry Laptev Strait
Sign in to savestrait connecting Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- strait
- Part of
- Laptev Sea
- Named after
- Dmitry Laptev
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- New Siberian Islands map.png
- Width
- 55.5
- Length
- 115
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- vertical depth
- 14
- native label
- Пролив Дмитрия Лаптева
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Encyclopedic overview
Map showing the location of Laptev Strait
Laptev Strait (Russian: Пролив Дмитрия Лаптева; Yakut: Миитэрэй Лаптев силбэһиитэ, romanized: Mîterey Laptev silbehîte) is a 60 km-wide strait in Russia. It separates Great Lyakhovsky Island of the Lyakhovsky Islands from the mainland, and connects the Laptev Sea in the west with the East Siberian Sea in the east. It is named after Russian explorer Dmitry Laptev.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dmitry Laptev Strait” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.