Dikson Island
Dikson Island, initially Dickson, is an island in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, situated in the Kara Sea near the mouth of the Yenisei River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Russia
- Also known as: “Dickson Island”, “Ostrov Dickson”, and “Ostrov Diksona”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dikson Airport.
Dikson Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Dikson Airport is a small commercial airport in Russia located 5 km west of the urban-type settlement of Dikson on a small island. The airport is owned by KrasAvia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dikson.
Dikson
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dikson is a small city in Taymyria with a population of 690. Among its inhabitants the city is nicknamed "Arctic's Capital", taken from a popular Soviet-era song.
Dikson Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Dikson Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Dikson Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ديكسون”
- Asturian: “Isla Dikson”
- Asturian: “Islla Dikson”
- Azerbaijani: “Dikson adası”
- Belarusian: “Дзіксан”
- Bosnian: “Dikson (ostrvo)”
- Bosnian: “Dikson”
- Bulgarian: “Диксон”
- Catalan: “ostrov Dikson”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Dikson”
- Chinese: “迪克森島”
- Croatian: “Dikson (otok)”
- Croatian: “Dikson”
- Croatian: “Dolgi (otok)”
- Croatian: “Kuzkin”
- Czech: “Dikson”
- Dutch: “Dikson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديكسون ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديكسون”
- Esperanto: “Dikson”
- Estonian: “Dicksoni saar”
- Estonian: “Diksoni saar”
- Finnish: “Dicksoninsaari”
- French: “île Dikson”
- French: “Île Dikson”
- German: “Dikson”
- Italian: “isola di Dikson”
- Italian: “Isola di Dikson”
- Japanese: “ジクソン島”
- Japanese: “ディクソン島”
- Kazakh: “Диксон аралы”
- Kazakh: “Диксон”
- Kirghiz: “Диксон”
- Korean: “딕손섬”
- Latin: “Insula Dickson”
- Latvian: “Diksona sala”
- Lithuanian: “Diksono sala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diksonøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrov Dikson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Остров Диксон”
- Persian: “جزیره دیکسون”
- Polish: “Dikson”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Dikson”
- Romanian: “Dikson”
- Russian: “Диксон остров”
- Russian: “Диксон”
- Russian: “Остров Диксон”
- Serbian: “Диксон (острво)”
- Serbian: “Острво Диксон”
- Spanish: “Isla de Dikson”
- Spanish: “Isla Dikson”
- Turkish: “Dikson adası”
- Turkish: “Dikson Adası”
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Explore places such as Novyy Dikson.
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