Jeannette Island is the easternmost island of the De Long Islands archipelago in the East Siberian Sea. Administratively it belongs to Yakutia of the Russian Federation. Jeannette is the second smallest island of the De Long group, being only 2 km in length. It has an area of approximately 3.3 km². The island surface is mainly covered by a central ice cap an…Jeannette Island is the easternmost island of the De Long Islands archipelago in the East Siberian Sea. Administratively it belongs to Yakutia of the Russian Federation. Jeannette is the second smallest island of the De Long group, being only 2 km in length. It has an area of approximately 3.3 km². The island surface is mainly covered by a central ice cap and firn. The highest peak of the island is in the middle of the ice cap, reaching a height of 351 m. A second subordinate peak reaches an elevation of 225 m. On all sides, the shores of the island consist of 100–350 m high, continuous, and rocky seacliffs that are higher and steeper in the southern and southeastern part and shallower in the northern part.
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