Barsa-Kelmes
Barsa-Kelmes was an island, the largest in the Aral Sea. Its area was 133 km2 in the 1980s, but as the sea became more shallow it steadily grew, until in the 1990s it ceased to be an island.- Type: Peninsula
- Description: formerly largest island in the Aral Sea
- Also known as: “Barsakelmes Aral” and “Ostrov Barsakel’mes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barsa-Kelmes Nature Reserve.
Barsa-Kelmes Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Barsa-Kelmes Nature Reserve is a wildlife refuge on the former island of Barsa-Kelmes in Kyzylorda Region of Kazakhstan, in Central Asia. It was founded in 1939. Barsa-Kelmes Nature Reserve is situated 3 km east of Barsa-Kelmes.
Barsa-Kelmes
- Categories: former island, agronym, island, and landform
- Location: Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
45.6452° or 45° 38′ 43″ north
Longitude
59.88982° or 59° 53′ 23″ east
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
Open location code
8HQXJVWQ+3W
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Barsa-Kelmes” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Barsakelmes”
- Bulgarian: “Барсакелмес”
- Catalan: “Illa de Barsakelmes”
- Catalan: “Llac Barsakelmes”
- Cebuano: “Poluostrov Barsakel’mes”
- Chinese: “巴爾薩-凱爾梅斯島”
- Chuvash: “Барсакельмес”
- Czech: “Barsakelmes”
- Dutch: “Barsa-Kelmes”
- Estonian: “Barsakelmes”
- German: “Barsakelmes”
- Hebrew: “ברסאקלמס”
- Indonesian: “Barsakelmes”
- Italian: “Barsa-Kelmes”
- Italian: “Lago Barsakelmes”
- Japanese: “バルサケルメス島”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Barsakelmes (ataw)”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Barsakelmes”
- Kazakh: “Barsakelmes Tübegi”
- Kazakh: “Барсакелмес Түбегі”
- Kazakh: “Барсакелмес”
- Lithuanian: “Barsakelmesas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barsakelmes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barsa-Kelmes”
- Norwegian: “Barsakelmes”
- Polish: “Barsakelmes”
- Russian: “Барсакельмес”
- Russian: “Остров Барсакельмес”
- Slovenian: “Barsakelmes”
- Spanish: “Barsa-Kelmes”
- Swedish: “Poluostrov Barsakel’mes”
- Tatar: “Барсакелмес”
- Ukrainian: “Барса-Кельмес”
- Ukrainian: “Барсакельмес”
- Uzbek: “Borsakelmas”
- Vietnamese: “Barsa-Kelmes”
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