Russia
Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.
In numbers
33,275km²
Area
2,121km
Coastline
measured on a simplified outline
1,291m
Highest point
Mount Pervosvotrennaya
2,716
People
6°C
Warmest sea
August
137km
To the mainland
When to go to Yuzhny Island
Good all year round.
The sea is warmest in August (6 °C) and coolest in February (-1 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.
Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.
Island in Russia
Yuzhny Island is an island in Russia. It covers 33,275 km², with 2,121 km of coastline. Its highest point, Mount Pervosvotrennaya, rises to 1,291 m. About 2,716 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 137 km away.
Getting there
- 137 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
Plan the trip
Ferries, stays and things to do
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On the island
What you find on Yuzhny Island.
- 15lighthouses
- 3named peaksMount Pervosvotrennaya, Local H.P. (844), Mount Freiberg
- 2ruins and archaeological sitesC-75
- 1hotels, guesthouses and apartments
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Yuzhny Island in our other atlases
Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Yuzhny Island, each with its own numbers.
14mountainsPeakyas
11lakesLakeyas
1waterfallCascadyas
Highest point
1,291m
Mount Pervosvotrennaya
according to Peakyas
Largest lake
19.1km²
Ozero Nekhvatova Vtoroye
according to Lakeyas
Warmest lake
13.6°C
Ozero Khosryto
surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas
14 mountains
on Peakyas, the mountain atlas
- Mount Pervosvotrennaya1,291m
- Mount Lazarev
- Gora Utyug
- Gora Troinaya
- Gora Chërnaya
- Krasnyye Gory
- Gora Olonkina
- Gora Rakhova
6 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
11 lakes
on Lakeyas, the lake atlas
- Ozero Nekhvatova Vtoroye19.1km²
- Gusinoe14.1km²
- Ozero Krest-To11.9km²
- Ozero Bol'shoye Pukhovoye11.4km²
- Ozero Zyussa7.6km²
- Ozero Taynoye2.9km²
- Ozero Ledyanoye1.6km²
- Ozero Pomorskoye1.3km²
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1 waterfalls
on Cascadyas, the waterfall atlas
- Vodopad Sakhanin
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Size, for real
Next to islands you may know.
200 km
All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).
Towns on the island
- Belush’ya Guba1,972 people
Month by month
The weather on the island.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon high (°C) | -12 | -13 | -11 | -6 | -2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | -2 | -6 | -9 |
| Night low (°C) | -18 | -19 | -17 | -13 | -7 | -1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | -5 | -11 | -14 |
| Sea (°C) | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | -1 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 54 | 56 | 53 | 56 | 69 | 70 | 78 | 83 | 77 | 75 | 74 |
| Wet days | 17 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| Sun h/day | 0.0 | 0.8 | 5.8 | 9.7 | 10.1 | 8.8 | 6.5 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | — |
| Wind (km/h) | 23 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 23 |
Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.
Recent years
Warmer and cooler years at sea.
Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | −0.2 | −0.3 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.3 | −0.1 | +3.6 | +3.5 | +2.9 | +2.1 | +1.0 | +0.1 |
| 2021 | −0.2 | −0.4 | −0.5 | −0.5 | −0.9 | −0.5 | +1.0 | +2.0 | +0.9 | +1.2 | +0.1 | −0.7 |
| 2022 | −0.6 | −0.4 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.5 | +0.3 | +2.3 | +3.1 | +0.5 | +0.6 | +0.8 | +0.5 |
| 2023 | ±0.0 | +0.1 | −0.1 | −0.1 | −0.1 | +1.9 | +3.1 | +4.7 | +3.7 | +1.1 | +0.1 | −0.3 |
| 2024 | −0.3 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.4 | −0.8 | −0.7 | +1.1 | +3.8 | +3.2 | +1.2 | +1.2 | +0.3 |
| 2025 | +0.3 | ±0.0 | −0.2 | +0.1 | +0.2 | +1.4 | +0.9 | +3.1 | +3.0 | +2.2 | +1.7 | +0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
About these numbers
| Names, area, population | Wikidata (Q212806) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Outline | Natural Earth · public domain |
| Sea temperature | NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020 |
| Climate | NASA POWER · 1991–2020 |
| Relief, 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Towns | GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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