page_title: Gora Sovetskaya
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gora Sovetskaya / History
caption_attribution_description: View this map on the BL Georeferencer service. Image taken from: Title: "Minnen från Vegas färd [under Baron Nordenskiöld] och dess svenska föregångare jämte en kortfattad framställning af nordostpassagens historia och den amerikanska nordpols-expeditionen under De Long, etc" Author: STUXBERG, Anton Julius. Contributor: DE LONG, George Washington. Contributor: NORDENSKIÖLD, Nils Adolf Erik - Baron Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10460.e.30." Page: 272 Place of Publishing: Stockholm Date of Publishing: 1890 Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003535763 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 0) Image found on book scan 272 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here.
context_page_description: Gora Sovetskaya, also known as Berry Peak, is a mountain in Wrangel Island. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.
  This 1,096 m high mountain is the highest point of Wrangel Island. It is located in the area near the center, in the Central Mountain Range that runs across Wrangel Island from east to west.
context_section_description: This mountain is conspicuous from the sea and was first described by Captain Thomas Long in 1867 as having "the appearance of an extinct volcano".
  It was named "Berry Peak" by the United States Navy in 1881 after American Lieutenant Robert M. Berry, commander of the USS Rodgers, who led the group which landed on the island. As a result of the surveys of the time, Berry Peak was marked as a 2,500 ft (760 m) high mountain by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey. By early 20th century other surveys of the mountain had been carried out from the shore, but once inland it was not clear which mountain was "Berry Peak". 
  The mountain was properly surveyed in 1938, during the time of the USSR, when the island had already become part of Russia. The correct elevation was found to be 1,096 m (3,596 ft) and the peak was named "Gora Sovetskaya".
caption: Old map of Wrangel Island with the peak marked as "Mount Berry".
exif: {"Image Copyright": "Public Domain, from the British Library's collections, 2013"}