This island is named after British yachtsman and explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith. The island's highest point is 309 m and its surface is wholly glacierized except for a small area at its northern point and another around Mys Bitterburga, its southernmost cape. It is 14 km long and has a maximum width of 6.5 km. Ostrov Li-Smita (Остров Ли-Смита), Leigh-Smith Island lies east of Hooker island, separated from it by a 6 km wide sound called Proliv Smitsona. A large seabird colony exists near Tikhaya Bay at Skala Rubini (Скала Рубини, Rubini Rock, 80☁8′N 52★0′E / 80.300°N 52.833☎ / 80.300 52.833), a spectacular rock formation of columnar basalt on Hooker Island's shore. The southernmost cape is called Mys Sesil Kharmswort. The westernmost cape is Mys Dandy and the southwestern one is Mys Ugol'nyy. Hooker Island's northwestern cape, Mys Alberta Markgama, is named after Sir Albert Hastings Markham the northeastern cape is called Mys Lyuis Pul. To the north, the Young Sound separates Hooker Island from the islands of Koetlitz, Nansen, Pritchet, and several others. To the southwest, De Bruyne Sound separates the island from Northbrook Island. There is another ice dome further north Kupol Yuriya (Купол Юрия), as well as a glacier with its terminus in the southern shore, the Obruchev Glacier. The highest point in Hooker Island is the summit of the western ice dome, Kupol Dzhensona (Купол Дженсона), at 576 metres (1,890 feet). A graveyard and two modern buildings exist. German staff were marooned here from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The island was visited by the Graf Zeppelin airship in July 1931 during a landmark aerial survey. There is another bay in the south of the island called Zaliv Makarova and another in the east known as Ledn. Tikhaya Bay was the site of a major base for polar expeditions, and the location of a meteorological station from 1929 to 1963. Caribou antlers have been found as well, suggesting that herds reached here up to about 1,300 years ago during a period where the earth had a warmer climate. Remains of a plesiosaur (Peloneustes philarchus) have been found in Hooker Island. : 131 It was named after British naturalist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker who went with James Clark Ross' expedition on ships Erebus and Terror to Antarctica in 1839. Hooker Island was discovered by the 1880 expedition to Franz Josef Land led by Benjamin Leigh Smith. It is administered by the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Hooker Island ( Russian: остров Гукера Ostrov Gukera) is one of the central islands of Franz Josef Land.
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