Kilpola
Encyclopedia
Kilpola is an island 6 x 8 km among the skerries
in the northwestern part of the Lake Ladoga
, in Lakhdenpokhsky District
of Republic of Karelia
, connected to the mainland by a bridge. It is composed of granite
hills rising up to about 60 m. above sea-level (55 m above the level of the lake) and covered by Scots Pine
forest. There are several lakes on the island.
Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack....
in the northwestern part of the Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 14th largest lake by area in the world.-Geography:...
, in Lakhdenpokhsky District
Lakhdenpokhsky District
Lakhdenpokhsky District is an administrative district , one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Lakhdenpokhsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the town of Lakhdenpokhya. District's population: 16,391 ; Population of Lakhdenpokhya...
of Republic of Karelia
Republic of Karelia
The Republic of Karelia is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is located in the northwestern part of Russia, taking intervening position between the basins of White and Baltic seas...
, connected to the mainland by a bridge. It is composed of granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
hills rising up to about 60 m. above sea-level (55 m above the level of the lake) and covered by Scots Pine
Scots Pine
Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots Pine, is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia...
forest. There are several lakes on the island.
External links
- Map of Kilpola
- Map of Kilpola
- Saarnisto, Matti & Tuulikki Grönlund (1996). Shoreline displacement of Lake Ladoga - new data from Kilpolansaari. HydrobiologiaHydrobiologiaHydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences is a scientific journal specialising in hydrobiology, including limnology and oceanography, systematics of aquatic organisms and aquatic ecology.-History:...
322.1-3, 205-215.
