Vozrojdeniya Orol

Vozrozhdeniya Island is a peninsula and former lake island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists as an island.

Vozrojdeniya Orol

Type: Island
Also known as: “Ostrov Nikolai”, “Ostrov Nikolay”, “Ostrov Nikolaya”, “Ostrov Vozrozhdeniya”, “Vozrozhdenīe Aral”, “Vozrozhdenya Island”, and “Wozrojdeniye Orol”
Category: landform
Location: Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude

45.15793° or 45° 9′ 29″ north

Longitude

59.02229° or 59° 1′ 20″ east

Elevation

38 metres (125 feet)

Open location code

8HQX525C+5W

GeoNames ID

607764

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