Karpinsky Glacier or Karpinsky Ice Cap ( Russian : Ледник Карпинского ; Lednik Karpinskogo ), also known as Mount Karpinsky , is a large ice cap on October Revolution Island , Severnaya Zemlya , Russian Federation .
6-609: It was named after Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky , a Russian geologist. This ice cap has a surface of 2,800 km and is the largest of the seven ice caps on October Revolution Island. Its maximum height is 963 m and it is also the highest point in Severnaya Zemlya. The Karpinsky Ice Cap is located on the eastern side of the island with the Laptev Sea and the Shokalsky Strait on its eastern side. To
12-454: A glacier in Russia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky ( Russian : Александр Петрович Карпинский , trl. Aljeksandr Pjetrovič Karpinskij; 7 January 1847 [ O.S. 26 December 1846] – 15 July 1936) was
18-754: A prominent Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist , and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences , and later Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1917–1936. Karpinsky was born in Turyinskiye Rudniki , Perm Governorate (now Krasnoturyinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast ), in the Ural Mountains , into a family of mining engineers. From 1857 to 1866 he studied at the mining school in St. Petersburg, and in 1863-1866 he also attended
24-598: The Mineralogical Institute. From 1866 to 1869 he worked in his home area in the Urals as a mining engineer. He was invited to the Mining Institute, St. Petersburg in 1869 as an Assistant Professor, whilst also doing further studies and research. He was given full professorship in 1877. He stayed there until 1885. He was the imperial director of mining research from 1885 to 1916. Karpinsky
30-681: The north it feeds the Matusevich Fjord , the largest fjord in the archipelago —beyond which lies the Rusanov Glacier , and to the southeast it feeds the head of the smaller Marat Fjord . To the south of the Karpinsky Glacier lies the University Glacier , which reaches a height of 806 m. This Arctic -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
36-564: Was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1886, was elected its president in May 1917, and held this title until his death. He was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1897. His main research was chiefly done in the Ural Mountains , and he completed the first geological map of European Russia . He was able to preserve much scientific equipment and many invaluable records during
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