The length of the Vilkitsky Strait is 128 km, the width approx.

55 km and the depth between 32 m and 210 m. It is covered with drifting ice all year round.

The strait was discovered in 1913 by a Russian hydrographic expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky and then named after him in 1918.

The shores on the side of the Taymyr Peninsula are covered with tundra vegetation and scattered stones.

The rivers that flow into the Vilkitsky Strait from the continental side are not significant.