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Malygina Strait

Malygina Strait or Malygin Strait in Siberia, Russia, is a sound, 9 to 30 km wide and approximately 60 km long, 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.

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Malygina Strait (Russia)

Malygina Strait or Malygin Strait in Siberia, Russia, is a sound, 9 to 30 km wide and approximately 60 km long,1 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.

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  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)

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