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Snake Island

Posted on June 23, 2022 by admin1  55

In Context

  • Ukraine has caused significant losses to the Russian military in airstrikes on Snake Island. 

Image Courtesy:BBC

About Snake Island

  • It is also known as Zmiinyi Island or Serpent Island.
  • It is a small piece of rock less than 700 metres from end to end.
  • It has been described as being “X-shaped”. 
  • It is located 35 km from the coast in the Black Sea, to the east of the mouth of the Danube and roughly southwest of the port city of Odessa.
  • It  has been known since ancient times and is marked on the map by the tiny village of Bile that is located on it, belonging to Ukraine. 

About Black Sea

  • The Black Sea, also known as the Euxine Sea, is one of the major water bodies and a famous inland sea of the world. 
  • It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west.
  • The roughly oval-shaped Black Sea occupies a large basin strategically situated at the southeastern extremity of Europe but connected to the distant waters of the Atlantic Ocean by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. 
  • The Crimean Peninsula thrusts into the Black Sea from the north, and just to its east the narrow Kerch Strait links the sea to the smaller Sea of Azov. 

Source:IE

 
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