examination of reports of a 90-foot fossil plum tree being found in Great Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands.

He explored the coastline and the islands of the Arctic Ocean, including Kotelny and Lyakhovsky Islands.

Those islands would later be called Bolshoy Lyakhovsky and the Medvyezhi Islands.

Lyakhovsky Islands, Russia

The Lyakhovsky Islands ( Russian: Ляховские острова Lyakhovskiye ostrova ) are the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the arctic seas of eastern Russia.

Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island (), or Great Lyakhovsky, is the largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands belonging to the New Siberian Islands archipelago between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in northern Russia.

The Lyakhovsky Islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhov, who explored them in 1773.

examination of reports of a fossil plum tree being found in Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands.

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Map showing the location of Lyakhovsky Islands

Maly Lyakhovsky Island () is the second largest of the Lyakhovsky Islands belonging to the New Siberian Islands archipelago in Laptev Sea in northern Russia.

The Lyakhovsky Islands are named in honour of Ivan Lyakhov, who explored them in 1773.

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The oldest known Pleistocene sediments exposed in the southern sea cliffs of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island consist of Saalian sediments, which accumulated between 200, 000 to 120, 000 years ago.

Sedge / grass, moss wetlands, which occur on the northwest and southeast ends of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, consist of wetland complexes dominated by sedges, grasses, and mosses.

Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island consists of highly folded and faulted Precambrian metamorphic rocks and turbidites ; Mesozoic turbidites and igneous rocks ; and Cenozoic sediments.

Small exposures of Late Proterozoic schistose, quartzose sandstones and phyllitic, sericite-quartz schist ( turbidites ) also occur in the southeastern part of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island.

Maly Lyakhovsky Island consists of Upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous turbidites, also known as " flysch ", covered by a thin veneer of Pliocene to Pleistocene sediments.

Then through Little Lyakhovsky Island | Malyi Island, to Cape Vaguin on Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island | Great Liakhov Island.

* Great Lyakhovsky Island ( о. Большо ́ й Ля ́ ховский ) 4, 600 km²

* Little Lyakhovsky Island ( о. Ма ́ лый Ля ́ ховский ) 1, 325 km²

In 1712, a Cossack unit led by M. Vagin reached the Great Lyakhovsky Island.

He traveled over the ice in sledges drawn by dogs and reached the south coast of Great Lyakhovsky Island.

These strata are described in greater detail in the Great Lyakhovsky Island page.

A cape in the delta of the Lena River and a strait between the Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island and Asian mainland bear his name.

A strait between Maly Lyakhovsky and Kotelny islands bears Sannikov's name.

In 1712, Permyakov and his companion Merkury Vagin crossed the Yana Bay from the mouth of the Yana to Bolshoy Lyakhovsky over the ice and explored the then unknown island.

Off Great Lyakhovsky Island's southwestern cape lies a small islet called Ostrov Khopto-Terer.

Off Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island's southwestern cape lies a small islet called Ostrov Khopto-Terer.

A blanket of unconsolidated Cenozoic sediments blankets most of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island.

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