Sorevnovaniya Island

This island lies very close to the coast of the Taymyr Peninsula; it is separated from it by a sound that is only 0.5 km in width.

The other is slightly larger and lies to the southeast of the main island's southern tip, within a small enclosed bay.

The sea surrounding the islands is covered with pack ice with some polynias in the long winter and the climate is harsh even in the summer.

The area around these islands was explored by Otto Sverdrup on ship Eklips in 1914 while he was searching for Brusilov and Rusanov.

Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, the ill-fated members of Roald Amundsen's Northern expedition in 1919, were lost in the vastness of this bleak and uninhabited area, where survival is difficult.