Gora Sovetskaya (, meaning "Soviet Mountain"), also known as Berry Peak, is a mountain on Wrangel Island. Administratively it is part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth
This mountain is the highest point of Wrangel Island. It is located in the area near the center of the island,Sailing Directions for Siberia. United States. Hydrographic Office; p. 53 in the Central Mountain Range that runs across Wrangel Island from east to west.
History The mountain is conspicuous from the sea and was first described by Captain Thomas Long in 1867 as having "the appearance of an extinct volcano."John Muir, Terry Gifford, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings, p. 718 It was named "Berry Peak" by the United States Navy in 1881 after U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert M. Berry, commanding officer of the steamer , who led the group which landed on the island.Herbert Michael Wilson, John Henry Renshawe, Edward Morehouse Douglas, Richard Urquhart Goode, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. No. 185. p. 96 As a result of the surveys of the time, Berry Peak was marked as a mountain by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.Dictionary of Altitudes of the United States, Bulletin. Issue 274. p. 37 By the 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."Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, The Adventure on Wrangel island
The mountain was properly surveyed in 1938, by which time the island had become part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. The correct elevation was found to be and the peak was named Gora Sovetskaya.Russia's Far East and Wrangel Island
See also List of mountains in Russia List of islands by highest point Topographic isolation References
External links Skrylnik G.P. – Climomorphogenesis and stability of geosystems of Wrangel Island // Arctic and Antarctic. – 2019.- No. 3. – S. 1 – 15. DOI: 10.7256 / 2453–8922.2019.3.29896 (in Russian)