[3] This island lies close to the limit of permanent ice; it is desolate and subject to severe Arctic storms.

[4] This island belongs to the Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia.

[4] Ushakov island has an ice cap climate (EF), bordering on a tundra climate (ET; average high in July is above freezing, meaning some snow can melt), owing to its location at 81 N and ~20 miles from the limit of permanent sea ice.

Summers are very cold and dry, while winters are extremely frigid and virtually without precipitation.

This was abandoned during the 1980s and when an expedition visited the island in 2001, they found two small buildings partly sunken into the ice.