page_title: Kolguyev Island
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kolguyev Island / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet C-3, 6th edition. Covers U.S.S.R. Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. Standard Parallels 65 20N and 70 40N. Center longitude 49 30E.
context_page_description: Kolguyev Island is an island in Nenets Autonomous Okrug Russia located in the south-eastern Barents Sea to the north-east of the Kanin Peninsula.
context_section_description: The approximately circular-shaped island has a diameter of 80 kilometres (50 mi) and is 3,497 square kilometres (1,350 sq mi) in area. The highest point on the island is at 166 m (545 feet). The vast wetland consists of many bogs and morainic hills, covered by vegetation characteristic of the tundra. Notably, a proposed subspecies of the Candle Larkspur, Delphinium elatum ssp. cryophilum, is only found on this island, but its distinctness from the mainland population is disputed.
  There is only one inhabited settlement on the island, Bugrino, located on the southeast coast. Nenets form the majority of the population, with fishing, reindeer farming and trapping being their main economic activities. Oil and gas are also present.
caption: Map including Kolguyev Island
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