Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea) Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky on the ships "Taymyr" and "Vaygach" on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service in order to chart the last blank areas of Russian maps. Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea) Vilkitsky Island (; "Ostrov Vilkitskogo") is the southernmost island of the De Long group in the northern part of the East Siberian Sea. Administratively Vilkitsky Island belongs to the Sakha Republic administrative division of the Russian Federation. The island is named after Russian hydrographer Boris Vilkitsky. The island is outside of the limits of permanent ice and is unglaciated. At barely Vilkitsky
East Siberian taiga ("Canis lupus"), moose ("Alces alces") and wild reindeer ("Rangifer tarandus") in Russia. Further south mammals in the East Siberian taiga include Siberian musk deer ("Moschus moschiferus"), Altai wapiti also known as Asian elk ("Cervus canadensis sibiricus") and wild boar ("Sus scrofa"). Birds of this ecoregion include the golden eagle ("Aquila chrysaetos"), peregrine falcon ("Falco peregrinus"), osprey ("Pandion haliaetus"), black stork ("Ciconia nigra"), hooded crane ("Grus monacha"), carrion crow ("Corvus corone"), the Siberian blue and rufous-tailed robins ("Luscinia cyane" and "L. sibilans", respectively), the thrush nightingale ("Luscinia luscinia"), Pallas's rosefinch ("Carpodacus roseus"), Pacific swift ("Apus pacificus") and Baikal teal ("Anas formosa").