For most of the 20th century, Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) bred only on the islands of the High Arctic: on the northeastern coast of Greenland, on Spitsbergen and
Vaygach Islands, and on the southern island of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago (Ptushenko, 1952; Cramp and Simmons, 1978; Ganter et al., 1999).
In the Paj-Khoj (also spelt Pay-Khoy or Pai-Khoi) Peninsula and Vajgach (also spelt
Vaygach or Vaigach) Island it ranges through the Volkhovian and in the South Urals it also extends into the Kundan (Fig.
The domestic reindeer belonging to the indigenous Chukchi people on Chukotka and the Nentsi people on
Vaygach and Bol'shezemel'skaya Tundra east of Arkhangle'sk in Russia are all part of the traditional reindeer husbandry in tundra areas of the north.
An increase was also suggested on
Vaygach Island, southeastern Barents Sea, for the same reason (Kalyakin, 1993).
75-76 Jenness reports that the Russian icebreaker
Vaygach had been within 10 miles of Wrangel Island on 4 August, when her captain heard a radio report of the start of World War I and was ordered back south to Anadyr, which implies that the Russians left the Karluk survivors in the lurch.
Into the Ice Sea is an account, written for a general public, of some Russian-Dutch archaeological expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and
Vaygach Island in northern Russia during the 1990s to revisit the site where Willem Barentsz wintered in 1596-97.
Breeding success of geese and swans on
Vaygach Island (USSR) during 1986-1988: Interplay of weather and arctic fox predation.
In fact, it was discovered by two Russian icebreakers, the Taymyr and the
Vaygach, in 1913, but explored and mapped by a four-man party under G.A.
Breeding success of geese and swans on
Vaygach island (USSR) during 1986-1988; interplay of weather and arctic fox predation.
During a lemming low in 1984 on
Vaygach Island (northwestern Siberia), Kaliakin (1992) recorded only one instance of successful breeding among 14 pairs of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis).
* The Integrated Marine Arctic Expedition, conducted by the Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage, has carried out investigations on Novaya Zemlya and on
Vaygach and Kolguyev islands since 1986.